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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.
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