Monday, February 2, 2015

Automated GUI testing with AutoHotKey

Robot in front of a screen

By Mike Jackson, Software Architect.

As part of a recent open call collaboration with the Distance project at the University of St. Andrews, I was asked about open source tools to automatically test GUI-based applications on Windows.

By coincidence, an EPCC colleague had recently asked me the same question. So, I hit Google and Wikipedia, tracked down some candidates and decided to try the free open source AutoHotKey toolkit. In this blog post, I describe my experiences with this "scriptable desktop automation" tool.

Freeware and open source GUI test tools

Wikipedia lists a number of open source GUI test tools and Google revealed a couple of others. However, only a few of these are free or open source:

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