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."Appium has easy interaction with mobile."
"Obviously because of automation, it reduces manual testing efforts."
"We develop apps using the React Native framework, and Appium integrates well for testing those apps. The Appium automation framework also has good integration with GitHub Actions and plenty of other tools and frameworks, including BrowserStack."
"Appium helps me to do as much as much as I want to."
"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."
"We get a list that shows all devices that are connected to the system."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Appium's best feature is that it supports multiple frameworks."
"Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development."
"The most valuable feature has been to store all our packages in one place including SSIS packages, SQL tables, TFS and SSR."
"Performance-wise, it is a great tool."
"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."
"It is a good and user-friendly tool."
"The most valuable features are the SSIS reports, the deployment models, and the ability to interact with other Microsoft tools."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a scalable solution."
"User-friendly ID and direct integration with GitHub are the most valuable."
"The tool needs to add a dependency manager."
"Appium has problems with automated validations following iOS updates, causing us to have to validate manually."
"The user interface needs improvement because there are issues when setting up environment variables."
"The initial setup is straightforward if you have previous experience with the solution, but it can be complicated for a novice user."
"We need some bug fixes for nested elements."
"We haven't been able to fully leverage Appium for multiple reasons. I think number one is just that the tests take a long time to run. We have had some issues around just the results themselves and how predictable they are, but those are not issues with Appium directly."
"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."
"Stability is an area that needs some improvement."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its stability."
"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."
"The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"The pricing of this solution should be lowered."
"Sometimes, the product is too complex to use."
"The documents on the Microsoft website are not very useful, and they ought to make it easier to find answers."
"The interface should be made attractive."
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Appium is ranked 5th in Regression Testing Tools with 25 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 6th in Functional Testing Tools with 48 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 Apache JMeter, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and Tricentis Tosca. See our Appium vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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