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allenj2020's avatar
allenj2020
Contributor
8 years ago

TestComplete scalability vs Appium

Hello all,   I'm a long time TestComplete desktop user, but we're developing a companion mobile app for the first time. I'm in the early stages of researching automation options.   Appium seems ...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    8 years ago

    Hi Allen,

     

    > Will it support, or are there plans to support:

    Obvious note : this is a user forum and none of us is informed about development plans. You may contact Support directly via the https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=TestComplete form and wonder if they can provide any piece of information.

     

    Nevertheless:

    -- Multiple physical devices on the same machine are supported but in sequential execution mode (i.e. tests can be executed on only one device at a time);

    -- Cloud device farms are not supported. (Yet?). Though AWS cloud itself is supported - search https://support.smartbear.com/articles/testcomplete/ page for the 'Cloud' word - there are 5+ articles on the topic;

    -- Application deploy (installation) to device is supported;

    -- Android emulators are supported.

     

    P.S. With TestComplete it is possible and not complex to create tests that interact with both desktop and mobile. E.g. do something in mobile and process the result in desktop. This is something that obviously cannot be implemented with Appium.

     

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3

Hi Allen,

 

> Will it support, or are there plans to support:

Obvious note : this is a user forum and none of us is informed about development plans. You may contact Support directly via the https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=TestComplete form and wonder if they can provide any piece of information.

 

Nevertheless:

-- Multiple physical devices on the same machine are supported but in sequential execution mode (i.e. tests can be executed on only one device at a time);

-- Cloud device farms are not supported. (Yet?). Though AWS cloud itself is supported - search https://support.smartbear.com/articles/testcomplete/ page for the 'Cloud' word - there are 5+ articles on the topic;

-- Application deploy (installation) to device is supported;

-- Android emulators are supported.

 

P.S. With TestComplete it is possible and not complex to create tests that interact with both desktop and mobile. E.g. do something in mobile and process the result in desktop. This is something that obviously cannot be implemented with Appium.

 

allenj2020's avatar
allenj2020
Contributor
8 years ago

Thanks Alex, that's good information about the device support.  

 

I'm already doing parallel execution of the desktop application tests with multiple test machines, it would be interesting to push the boundaries and see if having 2-3 physical devices or emulators on each host could be made to work.

 

Our application will be a pure Android and iOS app, not web based, so I don't think the cross browser testing ability will be helpful.

 

I would still be curious to hear from any users doing multi-device testing with TestComplete Mobile.

But based on the information so far it sounds promising enough to move ahead with a trial.

 

Thanks.

Allen

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    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    8 years ago

    Any time, Allen :)

     

    I remember that nginoza did a lot of mobile testing with TestComplete. Maybe he can provide some comments as well...