According to Statista, mobile apps were downloaded over 257 billion times in 2024. That’s 257 billion chances to win or lose—a user with a single glitch.
With CI/CD pipelines firing constantly, test automation isn’t a checkbox. It’s your last line of defense.
Here's a number that should grab your attention: nearly 88% of users say they’d abandon an app over bugs or glitches. And 78% notice issues in the apps they use. That’s a clear message—users won’t tolerate apps with bugs or glitches.
Mobile app automation often requires multiple services and libraries to be set up and platform-specific SDKs to be installed. Appium and WebdriverIO provide an interface to build tests that can run in both Android and iOS just by changing capabilities. In spite of the powerful interfaces, often mobile app automation projects are not set up to make use of this to full potential. Let's look at how to setup abstractions and reuse most of the automation scripts for Andorid and iOS app testing.