Comments on: Top Free Automation Tools for Testing Desktop Applications (2024)

By: Rachit Zambre

Rachit Zambre — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 02:29:18 +0000

By: Daniel Mocanu

Daniel Mocanu — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:51:16 +0000

There is a new tool for automating Windows applications based on the UI of apps. This software can automate desktop applications. It’s totally free and you can download it from here:
http://uideskautomationstudio.epizy.com/

By: Ashwini

Ashwini — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:22:39 +0000

Nice blog. Thank you for sharing.

By: jas

jas — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 02:59:17 +0000

Testmate can be a good option to automate Desktop applications. It is the fastest, easiest and supports object description with regular expressions and some other cool features.
http://thetestmate.com/desktop-automation-step-step/

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 04:55:52 +0000

I tried WinAppDriver for automating UI mouse clicks. But the main issue I face is, it causes huge memory leakage and hence performance get hit severely. Please read the below link and if someone has/finds a solution, kindly let me know.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57058496/winappdriver-time-taken-to-findelementsbyname-findelementsbyaccessibilityid

By: John, Gold Coast IT

John, Gold Coast IT — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:48:04 +0000

Those are pretty interesting tools you got there buddy. Thank you for sharing it, I will try them and see which fits my job. Thank you.

By: Nikolay Advolodkin

Nikolay Advolodkin — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:26:42 +0000

Nice collection of tools Joe. Thanks for sharing

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:11:07 +0000

Hi Joe,

Have you seen Nexial? It’s open source tool for the complete tool. Check it out: https://github.com/nexiality/nexial-core

By: What I read last week (10th March 2019) | Louise Gibbs – Software Tester

Sun, 10 Mar 2019 08:49:53 +0000

[…] Top Free Automation Tools for Testing Desktop ApplicationsJoe Colantonio shares a list of automation tools for desktop applications. The most talked about automation tool, Selenium, is designed for web applications but not everyone works with web applications. Its great to see an article focused on promoting alternative tools to Selenium. How to decide what to automateKristin Jacknovy breaks down how test automation should be developed into 12 simple points. We can’t and shouldn’t automate everything, in this article Jocknovy helps us make the right decision about what should be automated.10 Best Practices and Strategies for Test AutomationLike Jacknovy’s article, this is about best practices for test automation. However, unlike Jacknovy’s article, this is more about the test automation strategy rather than which tests to choose to automate. […]

By: nando

nando — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 08:13:22 +0000

In reply to Joe Colantonio. I thought so Joe, thanks!!