Appium vs Cucumber vs Robot Framework

Overview

Cucumber

Stacks991

Followers927

Votes36

Appium

Stacks580

Followers574

Votes28

GitHub Stars20.8K

Forks6.2K

Robot Framework

Stacks309

Followers525

Votes120

Detailed Comparison

Cucumber	Appium	Robot Framework
Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.	Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid, and mobile web apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver protocol. Appium is sponsored by Sauce Labs and a thriving community of open source developers.	It is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development. It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java, and users can create new higher-level keywords from existing ones using the same syntax that is used for creating test cases.
-	Works on native and hybrid mobile apps; Write mobile tests using any language or framework; Open source; Facilitates mobile continuous integration; Mobile test automation tool; Cross-platform (iOS, Android); Framework based on Selenium	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 20.8K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 6.2K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 991	Stacks 580	Stacks 309
Followers 927	Followers 574	Followers 525
Votes 36	Votes 28	Votes 120
Pros & Cons
Pros 20 Simple Syntax 8 Simple usage 5 Huge community 3 Nice report	Pros 12 Webdriverio support 6 Java, C#, Python support 3 Open source 2 Great GUI with inspector 2 Active community	Pros 23 Easy with CI/CD 22 Open Source 21 Simple Usage 14 Easily extendable 13 Vast Scope more than Front End Cons 8 Nested Loops 1 Devtooling is not there 1 Mostly for python 0 Extensive library support 0 Mobile supports
Integrations
No integrations available	Sauce Labs	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Cucumber, Appium, Robot Framework?

Karate DSL

Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.

TestCafe

It is a pure node.js end-to-end solution for testing web apps. It takes care of all the stages: starting browsers, running tests, gathering test results and generating reports.

Spock Framework

It is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. It is compatible with most IDEs, build tools, and continuous integration servers.

Selenide

It is a library for writing concise, readable, boilerplate-free tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver.

Capybara

Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with your app. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. WebKit is supported through an external gem.

PHPUnit

PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.

Detox

High velocity native mobile development requires us to adopt continuous integration workflows, which means our reliance on manual QA has to drop significantly. It tests your mobile app while it's running in a real device/simulator, interacting with it just like a real user.

Imagium

Imagium provides AI based visual testing solution for various forms of testing. It makes the job easier for QA Automation, Mobile Testers, DevOps and Compliance teams. Imagium is easy to integrate with any programing language

react-testing-library

It is a simple and complete React DOM testing utility that encourage good testing practices. It provides light utility functions on top of react-dom and react-dom/test-utils, in a way that encourages better testing practices.