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  5. Appium vs Cucumber vs Robot Framework

Appium vs Cucumber vs Robot Framework

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Overview

Cucumber
Cucumber
Stacks1.4K
Followers927
Votes36
Appium
Appium
Stacks650
Followers574
Votes28
GitHub Stars20.8K
Forks6.2K
Robot Framework
Robot Framework
Stacks344
Followers525
Votes120

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Detailed Comparison

Cucumber
Cucumber
Appium
Appium
Robot Framework
Robot Framework

Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.

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.

It is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development. It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java, and users can create new higher-level keywords from existing ones using the same syntax that is used for creating test cases.

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Works on native and hybrid mobile apps; Write mobile tests using any language or framework; Open source; Facilitates mobile continuous integration; Mobile test automation tool; Cross-platform (iOS, Android); Framework based on Selenium
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
20.8K
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
6.2K
GitHub Forks
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Stacks
1.4K
Stacks
650
Stacks
344
Followers
927
Followers
574
Followers
525
Votes
36
Votes
28
Votes
120
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 20
    Simple Syntax
  • 8
    Simple usage
  • 5
    Huge community
  • 3
    Nice report
Pros
  • 12
    Webdriverio support
  • 6
    Java, C#, Python support
  • 3
    Open source
  • 2
    Great GUI with inspector
  • 2
    Active community
Pros
  • 23
    Easy with CI/CD
  • 22
    Open Source
  • 21
    Simple Usage
  • 14
    Easily extendable
  • 13
    Vast Scope more than Front End
Cons
  • 8
    Nested Loops
  • 1
    Devtooling is not there
  • 1
    Mostly for python
  • 0
    Extensive library support
  • 0
    Mobile supports
Integrations
No integrations available
Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Cucumber, Appium, Robot Framework?

Karate DSL

Karate DSL

Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.

TestCafe

TestCafe

It is a pure node.js end-to-end solution for testing web apps. It takes care of all the stages: starting browsers, running tests, gathering test results and generating reports.

Spock Framework

Spock Framework

It is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. It is compatible with most IDEs, build tools, and continuous integration servers.

Selenide

Selenide

It is a library for writing concise, readable, boilerplate-free tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver.

Capybara

Capybara

Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with your app. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. WebKit is supported through an external gem.

PHPUnit

PHPUnit

PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.

Detox

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.

Imagium

Imagium

Imagium provides AI based visual testing solution for various forms of testing. It makes the job easier for QA Automation, Mobile Testers, DevOps and Compliance teams. Imagium is easy to integrate with any programing language

Codeception

Codeception

Full-stack testing framework for PHP. Run browsers tests, framework tests, APIs tests, unit tests with ease.

react-testing-library

react-testing-library

It is a simple and complete React DOM testing utility that encourage good testing practices. It provides light utility functions on top of react-dom and react-dom/test-utils, in a way that encourages better testing practices.

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