Author : Gaurang Shah, Prayag Shah and Rishikesh Muchhala

Software testing is an important, costly and one of the most tedious processes in software development life cycle. Automation of software testing is a boon for companies who develop applications on a large scale. This paper is produced so as to put some light on the latest automated software testing technologies and mainly talks about a testing tool called Appium. The main aim of automating the software testing process is to produce a high quality, optimized and a complete software and deliver it to the customer in the shortest possible time.

Keywords: software testing, automation, software development, Appium, mobile applications, software engineering

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.5 (Oct-2014)