Winappdriver: [Question][Suggestion] Visual inspector for windows applications in Appium-Desktop
Like the visual inspector feature provided by Appium-Desktop for iOS https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop#the-inspector , any chance something of the sort maybe be added into Appium-Desktop for Windows platform as well?
vishnu45
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Have you looked into Inspect? It's pretty helpful for most of the desktop apps I've automated (a couple get weird, but those tend to be off-the-shelf applications a client has adopted with no insight into what's going on behind the scenes.)
PandaMagnus
on 16 Apr 2018
@PandaMagnus sorry for the confusion, i did find that Appium-Desktop is capable of starting a UWP app and inspecting it and even performing some basic actions. You just need to provide the proper DesiredCapabilities. For example for the calculator application you can provide the same to do so:
{
"app": "Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App",
"deviceName": "WindowsPC",
"platformName": "Windows"
}
Also, yeah I have been primarily using inpect for object identification.
vishnu45
on 17 Apr 2018
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@PandaMagnus sorry for the confusion, i did find that Appium-Desktop is capable of starting a UWP app and inspecting it and even performing some basic actions. You just need to provide the proper DesiredCapabilities. For example for the calculator application you can provide the same to do so:
{
"app": "Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App",
"deviceName": "WindowsPC",
"platformName": "Windows"
}
Also, yeah I have been primarily using inpect for object identification.