Appium is an open source
automation tool for running scripts and testing native applications, mobile-web applications and hybrid applications on
Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
or
iOS using a webdriver.
History
Appium was originally developed by Dan Cuellar in 2011 under the name "iOSAuto", written in the
C# programming language.
The program was
open-sourced in August 2012 using the
Apache 2 license.
In January 2013,
Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs is an American cloud-hosted, web and mobile application automated testing platform company based in San Francisco, California.
Background
Sauce Labs was founded in August 2008. Huggins was named by InfoWorld as one of the top CTOs of 20 ...
agreed to fund Appium's development and motivated its code to be rewritten using
Node.js.
Appium won the 2014 ''Bossie award'' of
InfoWorld for the best open source desktop and mobile software. Appium was also selected as an ''Open Source Rookie of the Year'' by Black Duck Software.
In October 2016, Appium joined the
JS Foundation.
Initially as a mentor program, it graduated in August 2017.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://appium.io/
Automation software
Software testing tools
Unit testing frameworks