Appium interview questions — Hard
126 hard-level Appium questions from our Automation Testing bank, each with the correct answer and an explanation of why it is correct.
This topic slice is available to practise but is not yet part of our indexed set.
What this covers
Appium appears throughout Automation Testing interviews. At hard level, interviewers are typically checking depth under pressure — edge cases, failure modes, performance characteristics, and the trade-offs you accepted. Work through these, then explain your answer out loud; the second part is what interviews actually test.
5 example questions
1. Regarding Appium, which of the following is a false statement?
- A. UiAutomator2 is the standard Appium driver for Android automation.
- B. Appium sessions are configured entirely through environment variables, not capabilities.correct
- C. Appium Inspector helps locate elements and view the app's UI hierarchy.
- D. Appium supports gestures like swipe, scroll, and pinch via W3C Actions or driver mobile: commands.
Why: The selected statement is false. The other options are accurate statements about Appium.
2. Which of the following statements about Appium is FALSE?
- A. The accessibility id locator strategy is generally the most stable cross-platform locator in Appium.
- B. The only locator strategy Appium supports is XPath.correct
- C. Appium supports gestures like swipe, scroll, and pinch via W3C Actions or driver mobile: commands.
- D. Appium automates native, hybrid, and mobile web applications using the WebDriver protocol.
Why: The selected statement is false. The other options are accurate statements about Appium.
3. Which statement about Appium is NOT correct?
- A. Appium Inspector helps locate elements and view the app's UI hierarchy.
- B. Appium requires access to the application's source code to run tests.correct
- C. UiAutomator2 is the standard Appium driver for Android automation.
- D. Appium supports gestures like swipe, scroll, and pinch via W3C Actions or driver mobile: commands.
Why: The selected statement is false. The other options are accurate statements about Appium.
4. Identify the INCORRECT statement about Appium:
- A. The accessibility id locator strategy is generally the most stable cross-platform locator in Appium.
- B. Appium Inspector helps locate elements and view the app's UI hierarchy.
- C. Appium cannot automate hybrid applications containing webviews.correct
- D. Appium supports gestures like swipe, scroll, and pinch via W3C Actions or driver mobile: commands.
Why: The selected statement is false. The other options are accurate statements about Appium.
5. Appium automates mobile apps primarily via which protocol?
- A. A custom binary protocol.
- B. The WebDriver (W3C) protocol.correct
- C. SMTP.
- D. FTP.
Why: Appium extends WebDriver/W3C to native, hybrid, and mobile-web apps.