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Desktop App Automation Testing using Python

Desktop app automation testing using Python library is more user-friendly and the execution is also much faster than other implementations.

Desktop App Automation Testing using Python
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In this blog article, you will learn Desktop app automation testing using Python. Automating a desktop app is not an easy task using open-source tools. In the past, we wrote many blog articles on how to automate desktop applications test cases using White Framework.

However, today we would like to show you how to automate a desktop app using Python.

Required Packages

To automate desktop app, we need the following packages (pyWin32, comtypes, & six). Use the below Pip command to install all the three packages.

pip install pywinauto  

Launching An Application

from pywinauto.application import Application
app = Application().start("notepad.exe")
  

Inspecting Elements

You can use anyone of the below listed inspecting tools to write locators.

  • AccEvent.exe
  • AccExplorer32.exe
  • Inspect.exe
  • SPYXX.EXE
  • swapy-ob-0.4.3.exe
  • UISpy.exe
  • ViewWizard.exe
  • WSEdit.EXE

Locating windows by title

app.window(title="Untitled - Notepad").menu_select("Help->About Notepad")
  

Locating with regular expression

app.window(title_re='.* - Notepad$')
  

Finding a window with multiple properties

window = findwindow(title = "Untitled - Notepad", class = "Notepad")

Print Identifiers

Use the below command to print all the identifiers on a window.

app.window(title="Untitled - Notepad").print_control_identifiers()  

Other Actions

app.UntitledNotepad.menu_select("File->SaveAs")
app.SaveAs.ComboBox5.select("UTF-8")
app.SaveAs.edit1.set_text("Example-utf8.txt")
app.SaveAs.Save.click()
  

We explored this library with excitement. Desktop app automation testing using Python library is more user-friendly and the execution is also much faster than other implementations.

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