WinAppDriver VS Winium.Desktop

We use WinAppDriver with appium https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver We are no longer developing the desktop application, but our Azure devops pipeline is still running the tests.

It dead: https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/1550

First Download the WinAppDriver installer from https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/releases

I started looking for UI testing solutions for desktop applications. I quickly discarded expensive UI testing suites. WinAppDriver was very interesting, but one of the requirements was to add some kind of identifiers on every UI element that we wanted to interact with. This would have required a huge effort from the team.

Appium and/or WinAppDriver are a newer alternative and pretty easy to use.

An automation tool to drive your application under test (AUT) - WinAppDriver & Appium

Check out WinAppDriver (Windows Application Driver) by Microsoft. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but the repo (link) has good examples in it.

download winuiumDriver from github

Alternatively you could look into something like Winium. It's a fork of Selenium Web Driver, which is a tool that's used for automated UI tests for browser-based applications, but for Windows WPF and WinForms apps. It allows you to write code that automates mouse clicks, key presses, scrolling etc. in an app. Usually this is used for end-to-end UI tests (i.e. if I enter X value into Y field, check that Z happens) but you could use it simply to automate repeated inputs of some predetermined values, if your inventory management system supports it.