appium-desktop vs WinAppDriver

appium-desktop

Appium Server in Desktop GUIs for Mac, Windows, and Linux (by appium)

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Windows Application Driver (by microsoft)

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appium-desktop		WinAppDriver
	Project
6	Mentions	7
4,514	Stars	3,507
-	Growth	1.1%
5.2	Activity	0.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
JavaScript	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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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.

Automating Mobile Web Browsers with Appium
1 project | dev.to | 28 Mar 2024

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.
How to Efficiently Test iOS Apps with Appium on WeTest
5 projects | dev.to | 13 May 2022

Appium can be installed via Appium Desktop ( releases page ) or via npm. We use the latter one
Simplest way to Automatic test your React Native app with Appium
1 project | dev.to | 18 Jun 2021

Come here and get yoursefl a desktop version of Appium .
Mobile e2e tests using WebdriverIO and Appium
5 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021

Now, download Appium Desktop from this link.
The Painful Parts of End-to-End Test Automation for your Windows Application
2 projects | dev.to | 27 Jan 2021

Appium Desktop
Appium Running On Apple Silicon M1
1 project | /r/QualityAssurance | 7 Jan 2021

https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/issues/1617#issuecomment-743827892

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.

Automated testing WPF app
2 projects | /r/csharp | 9 Dec 2023

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.
C# - Suggestions on automating windows desktop application?
1 project | /r/softwaretesting | 11 Apr 2023

It dead: https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/1550
Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) With C#
1 project | dev.to | 14 Dec 2022

First Download the WinAppDriver installer from https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/releases
Universal UI testing based on image and text recognition
5 projects | dev.to | 5 Jul 2022

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.
Is there a way to open a program, do stuff inside it, then close it again with C#?
2 projects | /r/csharp | 31 Jan 2021

Appium and/or WinAppDriver are a newer alternative and pretty easy to use.
The Painful Parts of End-to-End Test Automation for your Windows Application
2 projects | dev.to | 27 Jan 2021

An automation tool to drive your application under test (AUT) - WinAppDriver & Appium
How do I go about automating features in Microsoft Teams?
1 project | /r/softwaretesting | 7 Jan 2021

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing appium-desktop and WinAppDriver you can also consider the following projects:

WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js

Winium.Desktop - Winium.Desktop is Selenium Remote WebDriver implementation for automated testing of Windows application based on WinFroms and WPF platforms.

appium - Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of your apps built on top of W3C WebDriver protocol

FlaUI - UI automation library for .Net

WebDriverAgent - A WebDriver server for iOS and tvOS

ThisIsWin11 - The real PowerToys for Windows 11

Quick - The Swift (and Objective-C) testing framework.

robotframework-appiumlibrary - AppiumLibrary is an appium testing library for RobotFramework

WeTest-automated-testing - A full-scale testing platform for each stage of your development and operations lifecycle.

Atata - C#/.NET test automation framework for web

Google Test - GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework

Oxygen - Functional-style C# Selenium wrapper for automated UI testing.