robotframework-flaui 1.3.2

Windows GUI testing library for Robot Framework

Robotframework-FlaUI Library

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Introduction

Robotframework-FlaUI is a keyword based user interface automation testing library for Windows applications like Win32, WinForms, WPF or Store Apps. It's based on the FlaUI user interface automation library.

Installation

Install the latest stable release:

pip install --upgrade robotframework-flaui

Documentation

• Keyword documentation

GUI Inspector Tools

There are various tools around which help inspecting application that should be ui tested or automated.

Some of them are:

• FlaUI Inspect
• VisualUIAVerify
• Inspect
• UISpy

Examples

Examples of use can be found in the atests folder.

Development

Preconditions

• Install Python, if not already installed. Only Python 3 is supported.
• To install Robot Framework and Python for .NET, run

pip install pythonnet
pip install robotframework
pip install robotframework-stringformat
pip install wheel

Alternatively you could use the provided requirements file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Test-Applications

Two test projects were used for the UI automation:

• FlaUI WPF Test App 'Standard application that contains all common UI elements'
• Notifier Test App 'Application which closes automatically after a time'

Building and testing locally

Use the provided local_install file:

.\local_install.cmd

The script automatically builds the:

• library as a wheel file stored in the Dist folder
• Test documentation located in the Docs folder
• Automatically installs and runs the robot tests of the library and saves the test results in the Result folder

Acknowledgements

FlaUI

• Thanks to @Roemer for the passion to create and maintain the FlaUI project.
• Thanks to FlaUI developers and maintainers for this project.