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Appium vs Kiwi: What are the differences?

Developers describe Appium as "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. On the other hand, Kiwi is detailed as "Simple BDD for iOS". 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.

Appium and Kiwi belong to "Mobile Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

Appium and Kiwi are both open source tools. Appium with 11.4K GitHub stars and 4.53K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kiwi with 4.05K GitHub stars and 505 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Kiwi
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    Webdriverio support
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    Java, C#, Python support
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    Open source
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    Great GUI with inspector
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    Active community
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    Support android test automation
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    Internal API access
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    Support iOS test automation
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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 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.

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      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.
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