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description: "Appium testers automate mobile checks across iOS and Android and keep device infrastructure running. Hire them into your mobile QA team, managed from Bangkok."
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# Appium specialists for your dedicated team.

Appium automates native, hybrid and mobile web applications on iOS and Android through the WebDriver protocol, driving the platforms' own automation frameworks underneath. Tests are written once against a common API, shared by both platforms.

## Where Appium fits in a long-term product team.

Appium's value is a single test style across both platforms with no changes to the application: it drives the shipping binary. For a product with parallel iOS and Android applications that follow the same journeys, that avoids maintaining two separate automation stacks with two sets of expertise.

It is slower and more fragile than the platform-native frameworks, because it works through an additional protocol layer. Device and simulator management is also hard: Appium suites fail for infrastructure reasons as often as for application reasons, and teams tend to underestimate that operational load.

## What your dedicated team does with Appium.

The device estate is the real project. Physical devices need charging, updating and occasional replacement; cloud device farms cost real money and have their own queueing behaviour. Neither is free, and both need somebody responsible for them.

That infrastructure is scoped as part of the testing capacity through [outsource qa testing](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/) on the same agreement.

## Common Appium use cases.

* One suite across iOS and Android Shared journeys automated once where the two applications follow the same flow.
* Testing the binary that will ship Automation against the release build, with no test-only modification of the application.
* Real devices for the cases that need them Camera, biometrics and network conditions tested on real hardware.

## Adding Appium skills to your team.

Mobile automation capacity is agreed with the device estate scoped explicitly, as part of how the monthly fee is built.

Appium specialists join your team remotely as dedicated, full-time team members, selected, employed and managed by us in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Companies that [hire offshore developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) through Azendo add the skill when the product calls for it.

## Roles that use Appium

* [Test Automation Engineer QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/test-automation-engineer/)

## Service areas that use Appium

* [QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/)

Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill.

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## Tell us what you need Appium for.

A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

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