Appium C# WinAppDriver UI Automation Testing Windows Apps

Appium-Based Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) is the newest automation tool for UI Automation and Software Functional Testing for testing desktop applications by Microsoft. This course is a WinAppDriver tutorial designed for everybody. Appium WinAppDriver is a free tool that provides APIs for many programming languages, including C# Dot Net, Java, and Python. The WinAppDriver is based on Appium, which is created from Selenium. Hence it is an industry-standard automation testing tool. Appium WinAppDriver is entirely compliant with WebDriver specifications(since it is based on Appium).

Windows Automation and Desktop Automation are at the heart of this course. It teaches you Appium WinAppDriver-based Automation with source code and step-by-step examples.

WinAppDriver provides the following things to facilitate Automated Testing:

1. WinAppDriver is the software that can receive Appium commands and act as a UI remote control.  WinAppDriver can perform different actions on the UI of a given Windows application for automation testing. It is possible to use WinAppDriver from any programming language, including but not limited to C#, Java, C++, JavaScript, Python.

2. WinAppDriver UI Recorder is a lightweight UI inspection tool that allows you to find various properties of Windows UI elements.

3. API support for various programming languages is available, including C Sharp (C#), Java, Python, and many more.

Many students of this course have used it to learn Windows UI Automation concepts and perform in Python automation and Java automation. They found it to be a great WinAppDriver tutorial series.

This course is a complete answer to your Windows automated software testing questions. In this course, I will show you how to get started using Appium WinAppDriver in C# and how to go full-throttle test automation in a short period.

Note: Appium was created based on WebDriver, which is also the basis of Selenium; this way, if you start from Appium/WinAppDriver, you can quickly move forward to Selenium-based UI testing. Although, you will need to understand how DOM-based HTML websites work.

The best part is that this course is in C# Dot Net, and I will show you the techniques which work instead of typical open-source trial and error. For example, Appium-based Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) is a course for QA persons by QA persons.

Appium is very popular in the automated tester community for mobile Automation. Appium for iOS and Android is already out there; Microsoft has joined the bandwagon by providing the necessary tooling to bring Windows application testing into the Appium world.

I'll show you how to automate the testing of legacy Win32 Applications, how to deal with Unified Windows Platform (UWP) applications, and how to take care of its challenge to identify UI elements in C# (C Sharp) with WinAppDriver.

The first section covers tool installation in detail, and I'll show you how to download and install everything you need for test automation win WinAppDriver. This will include Visual Studio Community Edition, Node.js, Appium, and WinAppDriver.

Section 2 introduces the Windows Application Driver (WAD) UI Recorder. As soon as the tools are installed, you'll set up your first UI Automation solution in C# .Net and add Appium WinAppDriver. You'll write your first test automation program using C# (C Sharp) and Appium WinAppDriver in the next 5 minutes. Finally, I'll show you how to take a screenshot using Appium WinAppDriver from C# code, read a Windows Win32 application title, maximize a window, and quit an application started by Appium WinAppDriver test automation scripts.

In section 2, I'll show you how to perform common UI Automation operations such as mouse click and typing with the keyboard (SendKeys). You'll learn how to use Selenium implicit wait using C# in Appium/WinAppDriver scenarios.

Appium Desktop Client is also covered; I will show you how to create a custom session in Appium Desktop Client to inspect elements of a Windows application through Windows Application Driver(WinAppDriver or WAD). You will also learn how to check the XML tree representing the UI elements of an application using Appium for test automation scripts.

Next, I'll introduce you to the MS Test (Visual Studio Unit Testing) Framework if you want to create a unit test project in Visual Studio. You'll practically see the life cycle of an MSTest-based unit test and implement it using keywords like TestClass, ClassInitialize, TestMethod, TestInitialize, TestCleanup, and ClassCleanup in C#. I'll also teach you how to see if your automated tests are passed or failed(the TDD red-green cycle); I'll show you the Visual Studio TestExplorer window for this purpose. You'll also learn how to see test failure error details. These general test automation concepts can be used in different languages and environments and with various test automation tools.

Please note that you can also use other automation frameworks like NUnit and XUnit although they're not shown in this WinAppDriver tutorial.

Afterward, I'll show you how to mix MS Test with (Appium) Windows Application Driver to create proper automated software testing scripts. In this section, I'll show you how to debug a test for identifying problems and devising solutions to complex problems (sometimes, you can't find a Windows Element beforehand). This section will provide helpful information about practical, functional UI testing using automated software testing tools.

I will show the MS Test's data-driven testing in the next section. Then, I'll show you how to incorporate Excel data in Appium Windows Application Driver tests. This section will show you how to run the same set of tests with different data for testing a variety of scenarios. But first, I'll show you how to use TestContext in automation testing.

Appium C# WinAppDriver UI Automation Testing is the core focus of this course.

The last section of this course will be about automated testing of WinForms-based (Windows Forms) applications in WinAppDriver (Appium). I'll show you how to access the most commonly used Windows controls in RPA/UI Test Automation. WinForms Windows UI Elements (controls) related topics explicitly by this course are given below:

• Checkbox test automation

• Radio button test automation

• Button test automation

• DataGrid test automation

• Popup automated testing

• WinTree automated testing

• Menu Item automated testing

In the end, I hope you will find this course helpful in learning automated software testing and UI Automation in general for RPA-like scenarios with Microsoft C#, Appium-based WinAppDriver, and Visual Studio.

This course uses entirely FREE SOFTWARE TOOLS!

Test automation is essential; learn it now!