We performed a comparison between Appium and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Regression Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Appium are the in-built functionality, which we can use in our code. For example, move back, move front, navigate one page before, and navigate one page ahead. You can do this by using the in-built functions from Appium."
"The best feature of Appium is that it allows you to inspect the element. With the Appium Inspector, you don't have to install another application to do the inspection. I also like that Appium has Android device connectivity. Currently, most people use Appium as automation software, and I haven't found any other tool that's more powerful than Appium."
"Obviously because of automation, it reduces manual testing efforts."
"It's an open-source solution with a very large community and available documentation."
"It runs completely flawlessly and seamlessly every day."
"The solution is stable."
"It has great documentation and excellent community support."
"The most valuable feature is that it's easy to launch applications. Appium has everything that Selenium has. So many good tools support Appium. We can take some Excel sheets and use them to fill out the text box that's in there. We can also take screenshots of failures."
"Visual Studio is an exemplary integrated development environment that stands out due to its exceptional features. It allows for the seamless selection of the appropriate programming language for the specific development tasks at hand. This facilitates a swift and effortless transition between languages, providing a highly efficient development experience."
"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."
"User-friendly ID and direct integration with GitHub are the most valuable."
"The user interface is very friendly."
"It's great for the development of .NET."
"The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"The ability to quickly make your own components has been valuable."
"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."
"Stability is an area that needs some improvement."
"What needs improvement in Appium is its documentation. It needs to give more context on the libraries that Appium is using under the hood. For example, my team is using Appium for Android automation, and a lot of times, I feel that there's functionality that's available through the Appium interface, that exists within the UIAutomator, but there aren't a lot of useful or helpful resources on the internet to find that information, so it would be good to have some linkage with the underlying platform itself. Another room for improvement in Appium is that it's buggy sometimes. For example, at times, there's a bug in the inspector application that doesn't allow me to save my desired capability set, so it would be nice to get that bug fixed, but overall, Appium is a good tool. The Touch Actions functionality in Appium also needs improvement. For example, if I want to initiate a scroll on the device that I'm running Appium on, sometimes Swipe works, but in other situations, I have to explicitly use action chains, so I'm not too sure what's the better approach. What I'd like to see in the next version of Appium is a more intelligent and more intuitive AppiumLibrary, in terms of identifying menus and scroll bars, etc., because right now, I'm unsure if I have to do a lot of export reversals to get to the elements I'm looking for. It would be nice to have some functionality built in, which would allow me to easily get those exports."
"It needs to accommodate applications that use React.js and AngularJS."
"Appium can improve when the case fails, there should be a feature where you can generate the report from Appium. Once you're on a test case, automatically the screenshot should be captured which would avoid manual intervention. These features would be beneficial to migrate to Appium."
"We previously worked with native applications, and there weren't any good mobile app testing tools. We started working with React Native, which works well with Appium, but it would be good to see better integration; the way elements are displayed can be messy. React Native is very popular nowadays, so it's essential to have that compatibility."
"Appium could improve by enabling record and run techniques similar to what they have in other licensing tools, such as Micro Focus. We have to all write the code, and then we can proceed."
"The setup and installation were a problem for us at first."
"They should add an in-built framework."
"The product must provide more integration."
"The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."
"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."
"We would like to be able to easily integrate this solution with our continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier."
"The vendor must release a lightweight version of the solution."
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Appium is ranked 5th in Regression Testing Tools with 25 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews. Appium is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Appium writes "It's easy to launch applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". Appium is most compared with Katalon Studio, Tricentis Tosca, Perfecto, Xamarin Platform and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT One. See our Appium vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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