Desktop application automation

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I need to automate desktop application i.e Bluetooth PTS tool. But can't find any good way to do. I have no exposure to scripting.

What operating system? You tagged it Python, does it need to be in Python? — Niels van Reijmersdal, Jul 11 '14 at 11:38
Scripting is programming. Learn programming first. Automating it using convenient programming language is the only way to do it. As Niels said, Python is excellent first language for programming beginners, with many free online resources. Good luck! — Peter M. - stands for Monica, Jul 14 '14 at 14:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 10 '14 at 10:58

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Talking about UI testing you can try Sikuli - great tool which uses image recognition. Also it is a lib which can be installed with Sikuli: Tesseract which allows to grab/recognize text. It supports Python(Jython), Java, etc.

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answered Oct 10 '14 at 09:54

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '18 at 10:27

automating any application requires programming experience. The best way to learn automation testing is to start with learning programming language,then frame works using the programming language and finally tools.

Mostly as testers we first focus on tools that help us in picking up automation quickly.

To automate desktop applications, there are a lot of tools available. Try Sahi,Sikuli,TestComplete(Commercial),AutoIT etc.

As you are new to scripting, I suggest to start with Python language(which is easy to learn and implement) and you can do many things with the available libraries. I would recommend you to use your research skills to identify what exactly you need in test lab to achieve the automation need at hand.

I wish you best of luck in automating.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 14 '14 at 08:00

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AutoIt works great for simple automation tasks. It doesn't require scripting if you use it in it's basic form of record-play.

answered Oct 14 '14 at 08:00

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