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Appium vs Ghost Inspector: 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 Ghost Inspector? Automated website testing. Record yourself browsing once. Replay it continuously from the cloud. Ghost Inspector lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks.

Appium belongs to "Mobile Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack, while Ghost Inspector can be primarily classified under "In-Browser Testing".

Some of the features offered by Appium are:

Works on native and hybrid mobile apps
Write mobile tests using any language or framework
Open source

On the other hand, Ghost Inspector provides the following key features:

Automated browser testing from the cloud
Chrome extension for test recording
GUI editor for test building and editing

"Webdriverio support" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Appium, while over 2 developers mention "Simple test editor" as the leading cause for choosing Ghost Inspector.

Appium is an open source tool with 9.5K GitHub stars and 3.9K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Appium's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is Appium?

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 Ghost Inspector?

It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks.

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Why do developers choose Appium?

Why do developers choose Ghost Inspector?

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Webdriverio support
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Java, C#, Python support

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Simple test editor
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Runscope integration
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No code required
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Videos of every test run
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Screenshot comparison
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30-40 in-parallel tests for cheap
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Partials and Variables enable fast test creation

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Load & Performance testing
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Flash Support inside browser
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Support Cross-device testing (device, web)

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What are some alternatives to Appium and Ghost Inspector?

Selendroid

Selendroid is a test automation framework which drives off the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps) and the mobile web. Tests are written using the Selenium 2 client API

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

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.

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.

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