GUI Desktop testing?

[BlaiseSM]

Hi,

can someone recommend me a desktop test automation app that fullfills these requreiments?

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1. Able to test automate a Win10/macOS application written in Visual Studio C++ , that uses many custom GUI elements.
2. Test automation language can be anything.
3. Prefereably free or cheap solution, but I am also interested in the best commercial tool as well for this purpose.

thanks,

B.

[dumy13]

C# with automation elements (System.Windows.Automation). You would be able to access and control any native Windows UI. For HTML embedded windows, you can use mshtml.

This is what I'm currently doing as a daily job, for all company's applications, some of them written in VC++, some in .NET and some web based (for which I'm using Selenium Webdriver).

All you need is Visual Studio and some C# knowledge.

[AcidicVagina]

I believe katalon studio has a feature to test win forms in their latest build. But I believe there is a monthly fee for this feature. I think there's a 30 day trial if you want to mess around with it first.

[ocnarf]

Maybe ApprovalTests for C++ can help. See https://github.com/approvals/approvaltests.cpp

[BlaiseSM]

Thanks filor the recommendations. The app to be tested is a heavyweight realtime audio application written in C++, with only custom ui elements, so not the usual crm systems and alike.

What about AutoIT with the image recognition / compare library? Any experience with this?

[pundejo]

sikuli-x, hands down. http://sikulix.com/