Winium - One of the open source tool that is successfully running in the market. First of all, let’s discuss the meaning of Winium; Win + Selenium = Winium. It is a proper selenium based automation framework for window desktop application. Winium is compatible with many programming languages for example java, objective – C, JavaScript with Node.JS, PHP, Python, Ruby, C#.
Winium support:
- Windows Desktop (WPF, WinForms) Apps
- Windows Store or Universal Apps for Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Silverlight Apps
Why We Need This Desktop Automation Tool?
There are many automation tools available in market for website automation or for mobile apps automation tool i.e. selenium with any browser like Chrome, Firefox etc. Selenium is for web applications and Appium is for Android/iOS applications. Though there are other types of application available as well like desktop apps. To cover automation of these types of apps we require Winium. So to inspect window based application elements we used Winium’s tool. Winium is implemented on protocol of JSONWire which is used by selenium.
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