How to Automate Windows Based Application using Winium and Selenium

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hope you will like the video. Like, Share and Support

[@gobinathpalanisamy5450]

following code not click 1 DesktopOptions option=new DesktopOptions(); option.setApplicationPath("C:\\Windows\\System32\\calc.exe"); WiniumDriver driver=new WiniumDriver(new URL("localhost:9999"), option); Thread.sleep(5000); driver.findElement(By.name("1")).click(); pls gve solution. following depence im using before run the program i started the server too com.github.2gis.winium winium-webdriver 0.1.0-1

[@RekhaChauhan-qu9gi]

Hi Mukesh , Actually i created maven project script for calculator and inspect and winium driver keep inside the project... what when i tried to clicking on any Number then not able to click on client virtual VM machine. But same code i have been written on my machine then it is clickable .can you pls help me , it is very appriciated

[@sumanthzvakacharla6079]

Thank you so much Mukesh! Your latest technology updates make us updated upto mark

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Sumanthz, keep updating your skill..

[@jitendrachaurasia6297]

nice one - this video will make life more easier for desktop application Automation developers, thanks Mukesh

[@miguelangelsuarezmontiel1364]

Hi friend, very nice and useful tutorial, very good to explain and very clear. Thanks for your time, and thanks for your effort. 🙏

[@aniruddhapssinghgehlot5471]

Outstanding session Sir ! Thanks a Ton !

[@soundarm337]

Thanks for the demo mukesh. awaiting for more on winium..

[@shauryasingh1642]

Thanks for the amazing video please make some video to automate excel application using Winium in the way we can combine Selenium and Winium together in Automation.

[@vamsikattamudi6560]

Hi Mukesh, this is very good video for desktop automation. Shall we automate the windows authentication in web application using this tool

[@meenudby]

Thanks Mukesh !!! looking forward to more videos.

[@kriya94]

Thank you bro for your clear explanation

[@Mukeshotwani]

You are welcome Basa

[@samareshsatpathy3818]

Hey Mukesh ,Thanks for this video.Can we use winium instead of AutoIT ?

[@thenmozhisundaram3671]

Very useful..thanks Mukesh for explaining this very clearly :)

[@sbonisomthembu6821]

Thanks for sharing Mukesh 👌

[@uvitalkumar]

Really very useful tool. Thank you for sharing.. Can you post a vedio using Winium with c#

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes will do. In blog they have given the steps as well. You can also give a try.

[@uvitalkumar]

Can you share blog link..Thank you

[@diwakardod5750]

Hi sir, thanks for uploading a video on winium. am so waiting fr that..

[@AbhishekMishra-ru2fi]

Good work champ :) Can we have video on Gradle as well?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes Abhishek will make soon.

[@ramansivasankar8838]

Thanks Mukesh. Very informative

[@ashishgoel7456]

Really Useful video :) You have a new subscriber!!

[@TamilTrends2]

Hi Mukesh, Thanks for the video, also can you pls suggest which is the best tool for desktop application with platform independency?

[@Mukeshotwani]

I tried Winium and UiPath but depends on your requirement you can use any of this tool.

[@praveenambi636]

Hi mukesh, Nice video , helpful one... Thanks for this. The only query I have is if the system or desktop is locked, will it work in that case also?

[@Mukeshotwani]

No I dont think so. You can check from your side and I will also check.

[@PareshBorole]

Hi Mukesh,Thanks for such great video. Just a doubt..Can we stop mouse movements for this because i tried moving mouse at runtime,it is failing because of that. So how can we handle this?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Paresh, while doing desktop automation you should not disturb the test machine because it will affect execution.

[@PareshBorole]

Okay. Thanks!!

[@pragyatest860]

Hi Mukesh As usual your videos are awesome, Now I just want to know how to automate MAC desktop application? Please suggest me any tool. Thanks Pragya

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Pragya, for MAC I will explore and will update.

[@pragyatest860]

okay, Thanks for the reply

[@tejkumarkempaiah4906]

Thanks for the video Mukesh, Does Winium also support CEF (Embedded chromium enabled framework) desktop applications?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Tej I never tried but it should work you can give a try and let me know if it works.

[@MrSWAPNIL25]

Does it supports mainframe apps also? I am working in a Banking app.. it uses both web + mainframe app.. web I can handle but I am looking for a tool which supports mainframe as well.. Please let me know if it supports mainframe app or not.. Or in ur idea if u have any app which supports mainframe then please let me know.. so that maximum coverage we can achieve... Also Thanks, this winium tool looks interesting..

[@Mukeshotwani]

+swapnil gour Hi Swapnil I have not tried but it should work for sure

[@nieldac2717]

Thanks for this nice tutorial Mukesh!

[@smratikulshrestha4504]

Thanks for sharing this excellent video on Winium Mukesh. Can you please help, how to provide path of Desktop shortcut application, mentioned by you in the video.Cheers

[@aarthikalyanasundaram8431]

Thanks for this Demo Mukesh:)

[@tiagolopesdefreitas8345]

My congratulations Mukesh your video help me much :)

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Tiago 🙏

[@uichannel9764]

How to select element in Combobox with Winium.Cruciatus?

[@amitchaudhary4762]

Hi Mukesh, Here we are opening an application using desktop class and than attaching that reference to winium driver. How to handle/attach already opened desktop application(For Example - Print dialogue box) in winium ?

[@AlphaSierra380]

As always awesome video....Thanks.

[@azerphoenix]

I need this video) Thank you, sir!))

[@Mukeshotwani]

Welcome Mate :)

[@NavneetKumar-lh7if]

Hello Mukesh, I got task to automate Settings -> System -> Display ... but at very 1st step I am not able to find out .exe file for "Settings" in windows to open/run it via auromation. Can you help me plz??

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Mate, you can also use Robot class in window to perform keyboard events.

[@NavneetKumar-lh7if]

@@Mukeshotwani I need your help and guidence , how can I connect to you??

[@ramandogra1008]

Hi Mukesh, We are using Winium for automating Desktop Appln. Its really helpful. Can you tell me how to scroll within an Application through Winium ??

[@RalphNgOfficial]

Hi Mukesh, thanks for sharing, I have a question regarding the Eclipse, when installing the Eclipse, which version should I choose, should I choose Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, or Eclipse for Testers?

[@amitchaudhary4762]

Hi Mukesh, This really great demo and explanation on this tool. I have a scenario where i move to windows "Save As" dialogue box from a web application. Is there way i can use winium to automate this scenario?

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Amit Chaudhary yes Amit why not it will work. You can use selenium code itself to handle download pop up window

[@amitchaudhary4762]

Thanks for your reply. But here we are opening an application using desktop class and than attaching that reference to winium driver. How to handle/attach already opened desktop application in winium ?

[@aimantirmizi]

Hello Mukesh, I always use to watch your training videos. They are very helpful. I am trying to automate one Swing Desktop Application, I am trying to use both Inpect.exe and UISpy to inspect the elements, unfortunately both did not work with swing desktop application. Which tool to use to inspect elements for above mentioned application? Thanks and keep it up! :) (Y) Regards

[@NishaYadav-yg8ss]

Hi Mukesh, how can we add wait for winium driver? I tried implicit wait but getting "'setTimeout' is not valid or implemented command" exception. Is there any way to add wait other than Thread.sleep()?

[@sujay2999]

did you find any way?

[@farzanainamdar9318]

Hi Mukesh, I am not able to identify few elements using ui spy. How to locate these elements

[@ramandogra1008]

Hi Mukesh, I am Automating application using UFT. It starts with an .exe and is s Fire Management Tool. It is development using WpF Controls of .Net. Can I replace UFT with Winium in this Case ?? Please confirm so that I can start learning it

[@Mukeshotwani]

+RAMAN DOGRA yes it will work

[@ramandogra1008]

Thanks Mukesh, Since My Application is wpf based. Writing Java Eclipse Code will work ?? Also please do create more videos on it and share some useful resources for Winium.

[@rahulthandani3421]

Mukesh Could you please add session for working with XPATH on winium. To find child, parent and following elements.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Rahul will try to upload soon.

[@amrutakadam5221]

Hi Mukesh, Thank you so much for this helpful video. Currently i am struggling to automate combo box. Will you please help me for this. Tganks in advance

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Amruta, what is exception/issue you are getting?

[@prajeethk3397]

Hi mukesh, nice tutorial . Do you give online classes for winium?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Prajeeth no training for winium because it’s not that stable and no updates from long time. I provide training on Selenium only as of now

[@TaldrenDR]

Q: How do you remote execute your test cases from TFS onto a target machine? With Coded UI, which is based on the same Microsoft Automation UI library, I can use Test Agent from TFS , so I hoped Winium allowed something similar.

[@ramkimarichamy5769]

@Mukesh Otwani Thanks for this guide to automate desktop application. Our existing selenium framework is running on Linux, could I collaborate the winium project I created with my existing selenium framework to run them on Linux?

[@Mukeshotwani]

No Ramki Winium works with only Windows.

[@brijyotchawla3247]

Is this stable for all windows application and not just for pre defined apps like calc or notepad ?

[@sammy22391]

Hi thanks lot for uploading this video, I have question Can I use this tool to upload multiple files from windows explorer?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes we can do..

[@Shaileshkumar-fn7rl]

Hi Mukesh, Very Good video. Thanks for such helpful video. Could you please tell me how we can handle dropdown and list of elements in the windows application?

[@NaveenKumar-bc7eg]

Hi Mukesh..can we use winium for accessing putty..I have a applicatio like library management system written in c language and which can view, add,modify searc h book details ..this can be accessed by putty ..can I automate this using winium?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Naveen, you can give a try and let me know if that works or not. You can use UiPath as well.

[@sridhar6358]

Please suggest best tool for extensive desktop automation and which has best support

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Sridhar, try TagUI and RPA tools UIPath.

[@saurabhsrivastav902]

Hi Mukesh, Thanks for the video. Can you let me know if we can use this tool for ETL testing and BI Report Testing like SAB BO- Crystal Report(Window Applications).

[@AkshayAgrawal5]

Hi Mukesh, how can we use UIspy for inspecting elements of Eclipse? I tried using the hovering method but didn't get any specific information related to the elements in eclipse like what we get for the Calculator application.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Akshay few tools wont work for all application so we might have to use multiple tools to inspect.

[@AkshayAgrawal5]

Okay, so do you know any of them which I can use to automate eclipse itself?

[@neelamrawat9827]

Can we do this automation using python rather than java??

[@lalitkadam8381]

Hi Mukesh, Do we have only one video on Winium? If there are more can you please provide link. I couldn’t find it on your channel list.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Lalit, WInium is not coming with new features now.

[@jeevithakumari9985]

I am facing problem that i did not find name, id or class but I can see automation id . In this case how can i automate my desktop application? please help me with this. OR I an say that there are 2-3 text field has name class name

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Jeevitha, you can use any location which is unique.

[@rubinahassan7309]

Hi Mukesh, Nice information. i was really looking for some freeware desktop automation tool these days. i am already using selenium for web version of my application and i have to automate desktop version of same application. eclipse and selenium is already setup on my machine. can i use the same by adding another project for desktop application, as there will be separate pom.xml in that for setting up winium. kinldy confirm?

[@onebeartoe]

Nice video, man. Thanks for sharing!

[@Mukeshotwani]

Welcome Mate :)

[@IQh142]

How can we switchTo() the dialog/message in Desktop application. I could NOT catch the element of the application which display a message first when it launch. Thank you for your answer!

[@neelammulik2687]

Hi Mukesh , how can we add or access this WindowsDesktopDriver in NONMaven project ie in simple Java project in Selenium. Asking this as im facing issue on the line of code - DesktopOptions options = new DesktopOptions(); Its not able to find the path where the Winium.Desktop.Driver.exe is placed. Thanks in advance.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Neelam you can also download jar from maven central and use the same in non maven projects.

[@varnashreeth7821]

Hi Mukesh, can u please suggest whether I can automate Remote desktop connection using this?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Shree, you can use UIPath for remote desktop connection.

[@yuhubug7180]

Hi were you able to automate remote desktop connection using uipath..if yes please can you share how to approach the solution. Thanks!!

[@renukakommoju4055]

In my application ihaving 2 buttons with same name and same class name how can i identify one button and click on it through winium... i am using object spy

[@Mukeshotwani]

In this case you can use findElements which will return List and then you can use index in program.

[@DigvijayBisht]

Good tutorial. My question was how do we automate an application whose path isnot present. Example case is, want to search teams from windo search open team and send message to group. How do I automate this.

[@JitendraKumar-lr3vq]

Hi Mukehs , I think WinappDriver is much better than Winnium , can you please make video on WinappDriver .

[@deepachandran4897]

How to initialize Winium driver in C#, could you please help. We do not have driverservice in c#

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hello Deepa, This is the example for C# github.com/2gis/Winium.Cruciatus

[@elixirautomation]

Hi Mukesh, I was automating USD with winium but I am having lot's of issues regarding object identification. How to write xpath in winium ? How to identify the object if data is coming from the third party app (html format) ?

[@balaramanb6500]

How to configure hub node for winium to perform parallel execution with Jenkins. Currently working in single machine. Same machine as both hub and node. But if hub and node is different machines then no such element exception displayed. Kindly let me know the solution.

[@farheenahmad2478]

Hey mukesh, any idea which tool to use to automate application which is developed in excel macros, ie complete application is in excel itself ?

[@ghendric]

the Inspect and UISpy tools don't run on windows 64bit. Are there newer versions of these available?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey George it should work, I am using Win64 during recording of this video.

[@rohitprakash8866]

Hi Mukesh.. can we automate windows PC app using this? Because windows pc app usually get isntalled in a hidden folder that is C:\Program Files\WindowsApps.. And due to permission issues we cannot really access this folder at times . Can we add some driver capabilities in winium too like we do in WinAppDriver?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes you can pass the application name but it is taking absolute path. Winium does not have any improvment from last 4 year so not recommending this tool Check out below repository and links now.github.com/2gis/Winium.Desktop github.com/2gis/Winium.Desktop/wiki/Capabilities

[@rohitprakash8866]

Understand.. I figured that upon some digging.. so I went ahead with sikuli .. actually we have developed our script using winappdriver.. problem with this is execution time is very slow.. it takes 40 min to execute a script which could be tested manually in 15 min.. m seeking some solution with other tools like sikuli.. do h have any othr alternative by any chance.. are u aware about this winappdriver issue?

[@himanshusingh6350]

its ... good for us thanks

[@RalphNgOfficial]

Hi Mukesh, another question is whether Winium compatible with Windows 10. I have experience in AutoIT, the AutoIT doesn't seems to compatible much with the Windows 10 Calculator. Will this issue be the same for Winium?

[@aadhavangroup2269]

Hi Mukesh, Can you please let me know how to use Implicit wait or explicitly wait? Because when we use as selenium syntax it was not working in winium. Please help me on this..

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Mate, You can use for loop with try catch.

[@aadhavangroup2269]

@@Mukeshotwani it means we need to use findelements or is displayed in loop try/catch. Please correct me if i am missed any thing

[@tgkashish]

Hello Mukesh, I have written one script using selenium RC now I want to use this (winium).But before starting I have just small question Can we use winium and execute the desktop application which is present in some other remote machine.If yes,then can you please tell me how I can proceed.

[@karthikchava4249]

Hi Mukesh, Can u pls show the same in Python

[@tijothomas7104]

Hi Mukesh , Could you please suggest sites in which Test complete is discussed in detail regarding desktop application

[@testinghub1169]

Hi Sir , I am getting could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure. What I have to do to fix this issue?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi, which version you are using?

[@rupammahato9233]

Hii Mukesh, I am getting this error : Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/remote/RemoteWebDriver I dont understand what to do next.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Please share all dependency with screenshot to my email [e-mail]

[@robertoricardoruizvega7083]

Hello, is there a system to capture the objects of the Java forms ?, because I tried with the Inspect.exe and UISpy.exe but does not recognize the objects (just take the window), will there be another that recognizes objects of the JAVA forms?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Roberto, You can try with this (personally not tried) www.patwel.com/downloads/ObjectBrowser.htm

[@ArunSharma-wm6od]

Hi Mukesh - Could you please tell How to handle native PRINT Dialogue to print the report ??

[@Thundercrack1969]

Hi Mukesh, can Winium be used to test a Flex Desktop Application running in Adobe AIR ?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Never tried but please try and let me know if that works or not.

[@rajivgupta5991]

Hi Mukesh, how to use winium to test a window application on remote machine. Is it possible through winium?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Rajiv, Remote Machine UI should be visible, winium wont work is VM is running in headless mode.

[@Mridubandari]

Hi Thank you for great session, I have a question- kindly 1:10 advise. Q. How can we launch the exe file from folder. Its not the regular app so am not able to find the app id of that .exe. Greatly appreciate any suggestions, thanks 🙏

[@maheshrao622]

Hi Mukesh, I have been a frequent visitor to your channel. I appreciate all your efforts in making life easier for all the testers out there. I was just following this video and trying to automate the calculator, but UISPY gives me an error on the start that limited user access will limit most of the features and when I run it I don't see the pane item for a calculator as you do. So, I tried to use INSPECT.EXE app instead of UISPy. and the automationid i got for the buttons are "num1Button" etc. But when I run the program, I see that it opened calc app but does nothing and no errors as well. Can you please let me know any reason for this? I am using findElement.id and also tried .name as well. But no luck.

[@leonardoalfaro3983]

thaks for your explanation. but i have a question. Can i automate an opened app? an app who were open by other app

[@Mukeshotwani]

Have not tried but recommend to open new session for automation. You can use TagUI which works on existing session.

[@leonardoalfaro3983]

@@Mukeshotwani ok, thanks for your feed back

[@AshutoshPatra]

trying to automate SOAPUI, but i am not able to find the element locators using the suggested .exe file. Could you try and let me know if that is possible as per the .exe file u suggested?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Ashu, you can use httpconnection library which can automate all kind of web services.

[@harishkumara3137]

Hey Mukesh. How to handle windows pop up which is already opened by selenium webdriver. Like attach file windows popup

[@Behappy-zj3kj]

Hi Mukesh. I have a requirement that I need to automate both desktop application and web application in one test case Wil winium works for that ? If not can you please suggest me something with which I can achieve my requirement

[@Mukeshotwani]

Selenium for Web + Winium for Desktop.

[@amittech3]

Hi Mukesh, using winium can we automate Oracle application that starts by putting url in browsers and opens java window forms??

[@tomhanks3280]

Hi Mukesh, what an excellent video! Can we automate Window's 'Security Prompts' using Winium? I tried using UISpy (Control + click on the Security prompt) but that didn't give any element identification.

[@parisapouya923]

Hi, do you find any solution for your issue? I faced a problem same as you. and there was not automation id for my app in UISpy or inspect.

[@rutujaaher5492]

@@parisapouya923 I am facing the same issue. Let me know if you have any solution.

[@momsdanceandfitness875]

Hello mukesh, can you please suggest me any tool which I can use to automate window based background application in java.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Shalini, you can use Winium, Sikuli, WinAppDriver and RPA tools (UIPath) and many more.

[@bhargavdesai6366]

How can we take screenshots of windows based apps using winium?

[@Mukeshotwani]

+bhargav desai yes we can take using Robot class

[@kamaljayasawal6879]

Hi, I want to automate windows app using winium + selenium. but not able to launch the app itself..can you please suggest.easy ways to launch the app...Thank You

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey kamal, What errors you are getting?

[@AmitKumar-op3ws]

Can we use this tool for Sabre Red App automation. Saber Red app is also a Window based application

[@muthupondi9538]

Hi Mukesh, I have a webapplication where on click of button it opens a windows application .And its not any exe ,it will open at the runtime.But in Winium we have to set the exe path but not sure what to give over there since this windows app opens from a web application. Does Winium support to automate this and how ?Please help me with that.Thanks

[@Mukeshotwani]

Muthu Winium works on active window. You can also try WinAppDriver too.

[@muthupondi9538]

@@Mukeshotwani Thank you Mukesh

[@yforyou1342]

Can we automate pivot table by using this Winium? if possible please let me know how, it will helps me a lot.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Shaik, can u try with UiPath kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWnKZ41qq7xom5o

[@gauravgupta7285]

Very Nice Video. Actually I am trying the same on system but not inspecting tools are not working correctly. Is there other tools to inspect elements.??

[@ankitanag6753]

Hi Mukesh, I am facing an issue in finding the element using UIspy. The application is a chrome legacy window and controls like text box and command button I guess is on document. Whenever I am spying any element UiSpy returns ControlType as "Chrome type.Document" and output is showing Element: "document""chrome legacy window". Could you please help me how can I identify elements on chrome legacy Windows.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Ankita, check below link. This thread might help stackoverflow.com/questions/57890068/automation-for-chrome-legacy-window-chromium-using-winium

[@ankitanag6753]

Thank you so much.

[@sushmapamnaniin5922]

Hi Mukesh , your Video Helped me , Thanks . When i tried this on my machine i am unable to locate elements. Instead of clicking 7 , its clicking 5 . locating incorrect elements for all numbers . can u plse help me with exact code. Also i tried this on Local machine as well as remote machine for both its unable to locate correct elements. waiting for your help, Thanks.

[@pradeepchannagiri]

Can we click on element which is not a BUTTON ? If yes, How ? Please help 🙏

[@vigneshg9648]

Hi Mukesh. Can we automate citrix based application(virtualized application) using Winium?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Guess so but not tried. Use UiPath for citrix based app