Appium vs Perfecto : which tool we can choose

[Jitendra kumar]

Hi All,

 

In my organization there is need for mobile automation tool and I found appium is a good tool as well as open source. My leadership has suggested perfecto but i want to choose appium as a mobile automation tool because this is open source. Now we have to decide which tool we can use in in our organization.  It will be great help if any of you can tell me difference between appium and perfecto so that i can convey the message to my leadership. I am new to appium so i don't know much about appium.

[Marius Bob]

I had a similar task in my organization.

First, perfecto mobile has pricing, appium don’t! J Appium is free and open source.

Second, before adopting a new tool in your company, you should make a research and answer to some questions raised from your project perspective.

 

I recommend to watch this presentation to learn more about Appuim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J0aXDbjiUE

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[Jonathan Lipps]

Perfecto mobile will give you a solution that could cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up. You'll be locked into their framework and won't ever be able to change.

Appium is free and open source. It will take some effort to get set up. You could do that yourself, hire a consultant, or work with one of the vendors who provide Appium as a service. Using Appium, you'll never be locked in to a specific vendor (or any vendor at all).

With Appium you benefit from fixes provided by the community, rather than relying on one organization. Take a look at the contributor list to see how many people have already contributed to Appium from the community.

Ultimately there are pros and cons and differences in features; so you need to do a cost/benefit analysis. I don't need to hide the fact that I believe building a testsuite on top of open source tools makes the most sense in the long run.

[Eran Kinsbrunner]

Hi Kumar

With Perfecto Mobile you would be able to scale on real devices, globally spread and connected to real live operator networks.

You are and will not be locked to 1 framework - Perfecto Mobile is an Open API (Restful API) platform which works within Eclipse (Selenium), HP UFT Mobile, Native Automation, Microsoft Visual Studio - pick your best tool and continue to work.

HTH

Eran

[bootstrap online]

Perfecto is not open source. Appium scales on real devices and is
supported by more than one vendor. Proprietary software is the
definition of lock in. Does Perfecto work with the industry standard
Selenium API (which is actually open)?

[James Farrier]

Yay for objectivity...... 

'Eran Kinsbruner is the Director of Product Marketing at PerfectoMobile'

They really need moderation on these groups.  The webdriver one especially ends up being multiple posts basically saying 'can you do my job for me'

/rant

[bootstrap online]

Hurray for openwashing.

http://readwrite.com/2011/02/03/how_to_spot_openwashing

[Jitendra kumar]

Thanks All for your input.