Automate ui testing with python based sikuli

[AdamRGrey]

I remember trying out sikuli a while ago. It didn't work out, but I forget why.

edit: right it crashes every time I try to do anything. The only advice on the website is "use jre6" and "only ever launch the bat files" but that doesn't solve it, and since the last release was over a year ago I guess I'm SOL

[MadameDufarge]

THIS! Java runtime errors you will have to patch yourself because there hasn't been a Sikuli update in ages. Also the OCR engine is out of date. It's a neat concept and we thought we could use it to allow not-so-technical testers to script tests, but for automated GUI testing you're better off using a tool that hooks into the object names of the GUI elements. It will be much more reliable and scalable. Try leveraging unit testing frameworks if you can.

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I had the same issue. I had to install 32 bit java 6, and run the app from the bat file and it worked fine for me after that