Version 13 of Techniques for 'driving' Windows applications

Updated 2003-12-12 21:59:48

[ testing, automation, ...]

[Technologies:

  • cwind - find windows, inject keystrokes (free)
  • wintclsend - similar to cwind, includes mouse moves (license)
  • ActiveX
  • Android (when combined with VNC)
  • AutoIt [L1 ]
  • COM
  • DDE
  • Expect for Windows
  • Perl's Win32::GuiTest
  • WSH
  • commercial testing applications,
  • Girder [L2 ] (including Python client [L3 ])
  • win32api's PostMessage provides for delivery of keystrokes, button presses, and such, to external processes; while this [L4 ] discussion is about Python coding, the same functionality is available to Tcl through ... (?)
  • ...]