Accelerate your Appium test cycles with HeadSpin

Improve your mobile app performance with more efficient testing.

What is Appium?

Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS mobile, Android mobile, and Windows desktop platforms. Native apps are those written using the iOS, Android, or Windows SDKs. Mobile web apps are web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in ‘Browser’ app on Android). Hybrid apps have a wrapper around a “webview” — a native control that enables interaction with web content. Projects like React or Apache Cordova make it easy to build apps using web technologies that are then bundled into a native wrapper, creating a hybrid app.

Importantly, Appium is “cross-platform”: it allows you to write tests against multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows), using the same API. This enables code reuse between iOS, Android, and Windows test suites. More information can be viewed here.

HeadSpin Advancements

HeadSpin is a proud supporter and contributor to the test automation ecosystem. HeadSpin focuses on building a global infrastructure to run Appium test on different geos with real users conditions.

We have made several advancements in this area and are happy to share our innovation with you to make your mobile testing and performance monitoring more efficient.

With HeadSpin:

No vendor lock in. Test on open source Appium and not a proprietary version
Speed up yo/ur test cycles by at least 30% with HeadSpin
Capture performance data for more actionable insights
Conduct parallel tests execution to save time
Test reliably on iOS and Android devices
Compatible with two way audio and biometric testing
Test for audio and video performance
Make no changes to your test script
Test faster and more efficiently

Appium IDE

HeadSpin developed the first custom desktop app.

HeadSpin’s Appium IDE is a custom desktop app that lets you debug and develop Appium scripts, start an Appium server, and inspect your app’s structure. It was developed by independent contributors at HeadSpin. Appium IDE is compatible with two-way audio and biometric testing.

HeadSpin developed a pure javascript Appium client which is now the official Appium client. See below:

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