PLAYWRIGHT FOR MOBILE
Extend Playwright’s mobile capabilities with Appetize
Achieve better mobile testing outcomes without the complexity. Fix your mobile issues faster with rapid, lightweight app testing.
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Challenge
Mobile testing can be slow, complicated, and flaky
Playwright is the next generation of testing, but it only supports web testing. Appetize enhances Playwright’s capabilities by enabling deeply integrated testing on native mobile apps, giving you unparalleled power and flexibility for your mobile and web tests.
Playwright is amazing…until you have to test your mobile apps
Playwright can simulate mobile devices by emulating screen sizes and using mobile browsers, but it doesn't test the native app experience. This means even major app issues can slide under the radar.
Mobile app testing is slow and scales poorly
Precious developer time is spent on engineering projects related solely to your testing infrastructure, rather than fixing bugs or releasing new features. Tests can take hours to complete, grinding developer momentum to a halt.
Flaky tests, confusing results
Flaky tests can mislead developers and testers into thinking an app is either working fine (when it’s not) or failing (when it actually works). This leads to wasted time investigating non-issues or overlooking real bugs. Root causes are difficult to chase down.
SOLUTION
The world's leading testing framework now works for mobile testing
Appetize enables you to build and run simple automated tests for your mobile apps while benefiting from the many tools that Playwright offers. The same device a Playwright script drives, an AI coding agent can drive too, through API calls or the Appetize CLI.
Unify testing across web & mobile
Appetize lets you test your actual app natively on the devices you choose – no need to modify your apps for testing purposes. With Appetize and Playwright, you can test browser, mobile, and external apps simultaneously.
Run 400 tests in 4 minutes
Using Appetize and Playwright lets you run multiple test scripts across a wide range of devices, ensuring that your app works consistently across different screen sizes, resolutions, and hardware configurations without the need to manually test each device.
Resilient testing
Virtual devices are consistent and resilient. Appetize can eliminate variables like hardware differences or OS-level inconsistencies while making it easy to replicate and debug flaky test scenarios. Easily trace issues and resolve them quickly.
Tests your agents can run themselves
AI coding agents connect over CLI and drive the same devices your suite uses, targeting elements from the accessibility tree instead of guessing at pixels. Failed runs come back as logs the agent can read and react to.
“Prior to using Appetize here at Abbott, our app development team was struggling to provide a way to demo, test, and simulate iOS and Android environments for our app portfolio. The previous platform we used was clunky and slow.”
Unblock your mobile testing with Appetize.
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Resources
Droidcon Berlin: Reliably test your mobile and web apps with a single test suite using Playwright
Appetize’s lead solutions engineer Pieter Snyman recently spoke at droidcon Berlin about reliably testing mobile and web apps with a single test suite using Playwright. Pieter spoke about how Appetize’s solution for mobile and web app testing addresses several key challenges, offering a unified approach that simplifies the testing process
App testing best practices with Appetize: Page Object Models (POM)
Appetize makes it easy to run end-to-end tests on Android and iOS mobile apps – right in your browser. To help identify and fix issues even faster, we’re sharing our testing expertise. In this blog post, we’re covering testing development best practices by showing you how to implement Page Object
New App Dashboard: Streamlined to find the right apps faster
Today, we're excited to announce the launch of our redesigned app dashboard, our new approach to organizing and finding your apps inside of Appetize. As a company we pride ourselves in providing simple solutions to complex problems. However, our users use Appetize in countless different ways. Over time, we received