Appium is an open source

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tool for running scripts and testing native applications, mobile-web applications and hybrid applications on Android or

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using a webdriver.

History

Appium was originally developed by Dan Cuellar in 2011 under the name "iOSAuto", written in the C# programming language. The program was open-sourced in August 2012 using the Apache 2 license. In January 2013,

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agreed to fund Appium's development and motivated its code to be rewritten using

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. Appium won the 2014 ''Bossie award'' of

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for the best open source desktop and mobile software. Appium was also selected as an ''Open Source Rookie of the Year'' by Black Duck Software. In October 2016, Appium joined the

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. Initially as a mentor program, it graduated in August 2017.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://appium.io/ Automation software Software testing tools Unit testing frameworks