Appium vs. Tricentis Testim Salesforce

Appium works well for well-structured mobile applications test automation that is particularly easy to leverage when different pages of the app use similar building blocks. If it takes time for some content in the app to be rendered, ask your dev team to add progress indicators and ensure they are accessible. That might be more complicated to do with Appium, though, if there's no good contact with Dev team established so you can request accessibility IDs added quickly enough when needed. Appium supports another locator strategies as well though (such as xPath or iOS class chain on iOS) but they wouldn't work as fast so you may get really slow tests.

Incentivized

My organization heavily customizes Salesforce to align it with specific business processes, adding custom fields, workflows, and triggers. With each Salesforce release or customization update, we need to ensure that existing functionalities and customizations remain intact.Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce excels in this scenario. Its ability to create and execute comprehensive regression test suites efficiently ensures that customizations don't introduce unexpected issues or regressions. We can automate the validation of custom workflows, triggers, and data integrity, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.

Incentivized

• Crossdevice: With Appium you can automate tests for Android and iOS both. There is no need to learn more than 1 language.
• Easy: It's really easy to configure and use appium; it's very useful when you're testing strategy is based on "developers write tests".
• Open Source: It's such a nice strength of appium, because you don't need to pay to use a good tool like Appium is.

Incentivized

• By automating testing processes we have reduce the time and human resources required for testing and enable us for cost savings.
• Seamlessly integrates with Salesforce enviornment.
• Adapts to projects of varying sizes and complexities to scaleup.

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• There are a number of expected methods that are not implemented, yet. With a similar sounding name as Selenium with similar functions, people who are familiar with Selenium try to use methods that appear to be available, but give a "not yet implemented" exception when run.
• Documentation can be confusing.
• Setup was a difficult process. This may not necessarily be the case once you figure everything out, but the whole figuring it out process was difficult and I ran into many, many problems when I first started.

Incentivized

• Streamlined Test Data Management:
• Challenges: Managing test data in Salesforce, especially when dealing with complex data models and large datasets, can be challenging. While Tricentis supports data-driven testing, it can be more intuitive in terms of data generation, manipulation, and maintenance.
• Room for Improvement: Tricentis could benefit from improved test data management features, including the ability to easily create, import, and export test data. Additionally, the tool could offer more built-in data generation options, data masking capabilities, and better integration with external data sources to simplify the test data setup process.
• Scriptless Testing for Complex Scenarios:
• Challenges: While Tricentis offers a user-friendly interface for test case creation, some complex Salesforce scenarios may still require scripting knowledge. This can be a hurdle for business users or testers with limited scripting expertise.
• Room for Improvement: Tricentis could enhance its scriptless testing capabilities by providing more advanced, yet user-friendly, features for handling complex scenarios. For example, improving the visual test design interface to accommodate intricate conditional logic, dynamic data handling, and complex user interactions without requiring scripting would make the tool more accessible to a broader range of users.

Incentivized

I am rating 10/10 because Appium can use with multiple programming languages with multiple Test engines. Also, it works for both Android and iOS.

Incentivized

We will renew but hope they improve their mobile experience.

Incentivized

I would like to give 9/10 rating to Appium because of it can easily integrate with popular frameworks and CI/CD tools, as well as it is reliable, flexible and easy to use. The setup can bit complex in initial step, but once on configured it's very easy to use and enables stable and scalable mobile automation for real and cloud devices.

Incentivized

Very good tool, first of this kind so no element to compare but still very good tool. It allows us to gain a lot of time and to be very deep in the testing phases

Incentivized

Most of mobile testing tools which are available in the market are paid license tools. But Appium is Open source mobile testing tool. We can create customised automation framework using Appium. It also supports various languages such as Java, Javascript etc. And also supports various operating systems such as Android, IOS etc. We can easily integrate Appium frameworks with CI/CD [Jenkins, Git etc].

Incentivized

We selected Tricentis Test Automation due to it's ease of use. It was the pricier option out of the competitve pool, however, it was important for us to have a scalable solution that integrated with all of our technologies and platforms. It was the most user-friendly tool and took the least amount of time to onboard individuals.

Incentivized

• For cost of ownership, the increase is positive times infinity, as it's free to install and use
• Lead time for suite development can be a negative, if not planned for during sprint planning
• Using Appium to execute tests in parallel across a cloud solution can improve CI/CD cycles by 100's of a percent

Incentivized

• Improved productivity of QA team a lot
• Efficiency of test automation scripts gone up
• Automating test cases is so easy and reduced lot of efforts