WinAppDriver
Windows Application Driver (by microsoft)
appium-desktop
Appium Server in Desktop GUIs for Mac, Windows, and Linux (by appium)
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| WinAppDriver | appium-desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 6 | |
| 3,500 | 4,514 | |
| 1.9% | - | |
| 0.0 | 5.2 | |
| 17 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C# | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
WinAppDriver
Posts with mentions or reviews of WinAppDriver.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
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Automated testing WPF app
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.
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C# - Suggestions on automating windows desktop application?
It dead: https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/1550
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Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) With C#
First Download the WinAppDriver installer from https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/releases
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Universal UI testing based on image and text recognition
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.
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Is there a way to open a program, do stuff inside it, then close it again with C#?
Appium and/or WinAppDriver are a newer alternative and pretty easy to use.
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The Painful Parts of End-to-End Test Automation for your Windows Application
An automation tool to drive your application under test (AUT) - WinAppDriver & Appium
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How do I go about automating features in Microsoft Teams?
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.
appium-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of appium-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-13.
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Automating Mobile Web Browsers with Appium
The first thing you can do when investigating a novel app without source code or accessibility IDs is to use Appium Desktop – a nice front end for Appium with a built-in inspector.
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How to Efficiently Test iOS Apps with Appium on WeTest
Appium can be installed via Appium Desktop ( releases page ) or via npm. We use the latter one
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Simplest way to Automatic test your React Native app with Appium
Come here and get yoursefl a desktop version of Appium .
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Mobile e2e tests using WebdriverIO and Appium
Now, download Appium Desktop from this link.
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The Painful Parts of End-to-End Test Automation for your Windows Application
Appium Desktop
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Appium Running On Apple Silicon M1
https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/issues/1617#issuecomment-743827892
What are some alternatives?
When comparing WinAppDriver and appium-desktop you can also consider the following projects:
Winium.Desktop - Winium.Desktop is Selenium Remote WebDriver implementation for automated testing of Windows application based on WinFroms and WPF platforms.
WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
FlaUI - UI automation library for .Net
appium - Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of your apps built on top of W3C WebDriver protocol
ThisIsWin11 - The real PowerToys for Windows 11
WebDriverAgent - A WebDriver server for iOS and tvOS
robotframework-appiumlibrary - AppiumLibrary is an appium testing library for RobotFramework
Quick - The Swift (and Objective-C) testing framework.
Atata - C#/.NET test automation framework for web
WeTest-automated-testing - A full-scale testing platform for each stage of your development and operations lifecycle.
Oxygen - Functional-style C# Selenium wrapper for automated UI testing.
Google Test - GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework
WinAppDriver vs Winium.Desktop
appium-desktop vs WebdriverIO
WinAppDriver vs FlaUI
appium-desktop vs appium
WinAppDriver vs ThisIsWin11
appium-desktop vs WebDriverAgent
WinAppDriver vs robotframework-appiumlibrary
appium-desktop vs Quick
WinAppDriver vs Atata
appium-desktop vs WeTest-automated-testing
WinAppDriver vs Oxygen
appium-desktop vs Google Test