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Appium vs Octopus Deploy: What are the differences?

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; Octopus Deploy: Automated deployment for .NET. Octopus works with your build server to enable reliable, secure, automated releases of ASP.NET applications and Windows Services into test, staging and production environments, whether they are in the cloud or on-premises.

Appium can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Testing Frameworks" category, while Octopus Deploy is grouped under "Deployment as a Service".

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, Octopus Deploy provides the following key features:

  • Deploy on-premises or to the cloud, securely
  • Built for .NET developers
  • Configuration and scripting

"Webdriverio support" is the primary reason why developers consider Appium over the competitors, whereas "Powerful" was stated as the key factor in picking Octopus Deploy.

Appium is an open source tool with 9.66K GitHub stars and 3.94K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Appium's open source repository on GitHub.

Starbucks, Olo, and Huddle are some of the popular companies that use Octopus Deploy, whereas Appium is used by Intuit, PedidosYa, and A+E Networks. Octopus Deploy has a broader approval, being mentioned in 47 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to Appium, which is listed in 31 company stacks and 21 developer stacks.

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Pros of Appium
Pros of Octopus Deploy
  • 12
    Webdriverio support
  • 6
    Java, C#, Python support
  • 3
    Open source
  • 2
    Great GUI with inspector
  • 2
    Active community
  • 1
    Support android test automation
  • 1
    Internal API access
  • 1
    Support iOS test automation
  • 30
    Powerful
  • 25
    Simplicity
  • 20
    Easy to learn
  • 17
    .Net oriented
  • 14
    Easy to manage releases and rollback
  • 8
    Allows multitenancy
  • 4
    Nice interface

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Cons of Appium
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    • 4
      Poor UI
    • 2
      Config & variables not versioned (e.g. in git)
    • 2
      Management of Config

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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 Octopus Deploy?

    Octopus Deploy helps teams to manage releases, automate deployments, and operate applications with automated runbooks. It's free for small teams.

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    What are some alternatives to Appium and Octopus Deploy?
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    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
    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.
    BrowserStack
    BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.
    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.
    Git
    Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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