Recipe 42Test a GUI on Linux, Mac, or Windows with Sikuli

Problem

You’re testing a Linux program written with a custom toolkit that’s difficult to automate. Or, you’d like to test a cross-platform application from a single test suite.

Ingredients

  • Sikuli,[276] a Java-based visual GUI testing tool from MIT

  • JRuby,[277] a Ruby implementation written in Java that can call Sikuli’s API

  • The sikuli gem[278] to provide a few convenience wrappers in Ruby

Solution

Sikuli is a GUI testing tool that takes a bit of a different tack than its peers. Rather than finding controls on the screen by metadata such as CSS selectors or automation IDs, Sikuli takes a snapshot of the screen and recognizes controls by their appearance.

This approach presents a ...

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