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Appium vs Magneto: 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, Magneto is detailed as "Android Test Automation". 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.
Appium and Magneto can be primarily classified as "Mobile Testing Frameworks" tools.
Appium and Magneto are both open source tools. It seems that Appium with 9.66K GitHub stars and 3.94K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Magneto with 82 GitHub stars and 12 GitHub forks.
Pros of Appium
- Webdriverio support12
- Java, C#, Python support6
- Open source3
- Great GUI with inspector2
- Active community2
- Support android test automation1
- Internal API access1
- Support iOS test automation1