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  5. Appium vs Firepad

Appium vs Firepad

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Overview

Appium
Appium
Stacks650
Followers574
Votes28
GitHub Stars20.8K
Forks6.2K
Firepad
Firepad
Stacks7
Followers28
Votes0

Appium vs Firepad: What are the differences?

What is Appium? Automation for iOS and Android Apps. 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.

What is Firepad? An open-source, real-time, collaborative code and text editing library built on Firebase. An open source collaborative code and text editor. Share documents and see changes occur in real-time.

Appium and Firepad are primarily classified as "Mobile Testing Frameworks" and "Collaborative Text Editor" tools respectively.

Appium and Firepad are both open source tools. Appium with 9.66K GitHub stars and 3.94K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Firepad with 3.2K GitHub stars and 743 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Appium
Appium
Firepad
Firepad

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.

An open source collaborative code and text editor. Share documents and see changes occur in real-time.

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
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
20.8K
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Forks
6.2K
GitHub Forks
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Stacks
650
Stacks
7
Followers
574
Followers
28
Votes
28
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 12
    Webdriverio support
  • 6
    Java, C#, Python support
  • 3
    Open source
  • 2
    Active community
  • 2
    Great GUI with inspector
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Integrations
Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs
Firebase
Firebase

What are some alternatives to Appium, Firepad?

Ace

Ace

Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Our goal is to create a browser based editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page or JavaScript application.

EarlGrey

EarlGrey

EarlGrey is a native iOS UI automation test framework that enables you to write clear, concise tests. With the EarlGrey framework, you have access to enhanced synchronization features. EarlGrey automatically synchronizes with the UI, network requests, and various queues; but still allows you to manually implement customized timings, if needed.

Zed

Zed

It is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It efficiently leverages every CPU core and your GPU to start instantly, load files in a blink, and respond to your keystrokes on the next display refresh.

Kobiton

Kobiton

It enables developers and testers to perform automated and manual testing of mobile apps and websites on real devices. Modern DevOps and Quality environments require apps to be tested on hundreds of device/OS/browser combinations. Managing an in-house device-lab is expensive, resource intensive, restrictive and very manual. Kobiton allows for instant provisioning of real devices for testing with automated or manual scripts, and also allows current on-premise devices to be plugged in to form a holistic testing cloud.

Kiwi

Kiwi

It is a Behavior Driven Development library for iOS development. The goal is to provide a BDD library that is exquisitely simple to setup and use.

pCloudy

pCloudy

It is a smart mobile app testing solution that lets developers ensure their users enjoy a smooth and consistent experience. With it, developers can access manual and automated testing options to facilitate the swift debugging of their applications.

Magneto

Magneto

Magneto was built by Automation Engineers for Automation Engineers out of necessity for a mobile centric test automation framework that's easy to setup, run and utilize.

Experitest

Experitest

It allows users to create and run Appium, Selenium, XCUITest & Espresso tests against real devices and web browsers. Users can create & execute hundreds of manual or automated tests in parallel on IOS & Android devices. Users can automate their cross-browser testing, perform visual testing and access advanced analytics.

Tandem

Tandem

Tandem is a decentralized, collaborative text-editing solution. Tandem works with native text editors, works across different editors, and uses peer-to-peer connections to facilitate communication. Tandem exists as a set of plugins for native text editors. We currently support Sublime Text 3 and Neovim. We also unofficially support Vim.

Graphite Docs

Graphite Docs

Graphite enables convenient, secure, decentralized, and user-owned file creation, file storage, communication, and sharing.

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