For all those who are looking for a free option to automate desktop applications, Testmate can be of imminent help.

Testmate is a VBScript based tool that simplifies the automation process for various applications (restricting our scope to only desktop applications such as .net, win32 & WPF in this article). It also provides inbuilt reporting and other framework components like OR etc.

Please find below the step by step guide to start with after you download Testmate:

1. Setting up Testmate
2. Knowing the reserved objects
3. Create objects for desktop application
4. Create the first test case Watch the video here
5. Object Repository
6. Automate calculator without Object repository
7. Set the main window as root to increase performance

Sample application and script

Download and extract the sample code below and copy it directly under C:
(To avoid any configuration, extract as C:\Sample or else manually change the path in config.xml file)

Downloads

Then run it using testmate

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Setup:

• Copy the below VBScript code in a text file with extension .jts
• In the same folder as script add a config file (mandatory to report path in config file)
• Save the repository file (embedded below) as XML and update the repository  path in config file
• Run

Repository

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="stylesheet.xsl"?>
<Objects>
<ky_Main>Window,Name::Form1
<ky_TabControl>Tab,AutomationId::tabControl1<ky_TabPage1>TabItem,Name::tabPage1</ky_TabPage1><ky_TabPage2>TabItem,Name::tabPage2</ky_TabPage2><ky_TabPage3>TabItem,Name::tabPage3</ky_TabPage3><ky_TabPane>Pane<ky_Tree>Tree</ky_Tree><ky_DataGrid>Table,AutomationId::dataGridView1</ky_DataGrid><ky_Checkbox1>CheckBox,AutomationID::checkBox1</ky_Checkbox1><ky_RadioButton1>RadioButton,AutomationID::radioButton1</ky_RadioButton1><ky_RadioButton2>RadioButton,AutomationID::radioButton2</ky_RadioButton2></ky_TabPane></ky_TabControl>
<ky_Textbox1>Edit,AutomationID::textBox1</ky_Textbox1>
<ky_Popup>Window<ky_OK_Button>Button,Name::OK</ky_OK_Button></ky_Popup>
<ky_Toolstrip1>Toolbar,Name::toolStrip1
<ky_Button1_TS>Button,Name::btn1</ky_Button1_TS><ky_List1>ComboBox</ky_List1></ky_Toolstrip1>
<ky_Button1>Button,Name::button1</ky_Button1>
</ky_Main>
</Objects>

VBScript

'Launch the app if not already launched.
 If Not(uia.Exist("ky_Main")) Then   
    hwnd = util.StartApp("C:\Testmate\Sample\SampleTest.exe")
 End If

'uia.SetRoot "ky_Main"
 uia.SetRoot hwnd

'Select the tab
 uia.Select("ky_TabPage1")

' Click on the button
 uia.Click "ky_Button1"

'Fail the step if Popup Appears - Explicit failure for demonstration
 If uia.Exist("ky_OK_Button",3) Then  
    Logger.Fail "Step 1", "Popup has been displayed", True
    uia.Click "ky_OK_Button"
End If

'Set the Textbox value
 uia.SetValue "ky_Textbox1" ,cstr(Time)

'Toggle the checkbox
 uia.Toggle("ky_Checkbox1")

'Validate the Checkbox is checked
 If uia.GetLegacyProperty("ky_Checkbox1","state")="1048596" Then
    'Report the passed step
    Logger.Pass "Step 2", "checkbox checked"
 Else
    'Report failure
    Logger.Fail "Step 2", "checkbox checked",True
 End If

'Click on radio button 2
 uia.Click("ky_RadioButton2")

'Select Tab 2
 uia.Select "ky_TabPage2"

'Perform Expand node operations on the the tree view
 uia.ExpandTreeNode "ky_Tree" ,"Node0"
 uia.ExpandTreeNode "ky_Tree" ,"Node0;Node2"
 uia.ExpandTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"

'Perform Select Node Operation
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree" ,"Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"

'Perform Expand select node operation
 uia.ExpandTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node1"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node1;Node17"

'Collapse all the tree nodes
 uia.CollapseTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0"
 uia.CollapseTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"
 uia.CollapseTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.CollapseTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node1"

'Select Value from the List view
 uia.SelectFromDropDown "ky_List1" ,"Third"

'Select Third Tab
 uia.Select "ky_TabPage3"

'Set the values in data grid
 uia.SetCellData "ky_DataGrid", 1,1 ,Cstr(Time)
 uia.SetCellData "ky_DataGrid",1,2 ,"Test"
 uia.SetCellData "ky_DataGrid",1,3 ,Cstr(Time)

'Select The Tab
 uia.Select("ky_TabPage1")

'Click on the button 1
 uia.Click "ky_Button1"

'Handle popup
 If uia.Exist("ky_OK_Button",3) Then

    'Click Ok
    uia.Click "ky_OK_Button"

 End If

'Set the Textbox value
 uia.SetValue "ky_Textbox1" ,cstr(Time)

'Toggle the checkbox
 uia.Toggle("ky_Checkbox1")

'Validate the Checkbox is not checked
 If uia.GetLegacyProperty("ky_Checkbox1","state")="1048596" Then

    'Report the passed step
    Logger.Fail "Step 3", "checkbox checked"'
 Else

    'Report failure
    Logger.Pass "Step 3", "checkbox checked",True
 End If

'Click on radio button 2
 uia.Click("ky_RadioButton2")

'Select Tab 2
 uia.Select "ky_TabPage2"

'Perform Expand node operations on the the tree view
 uia.ExpandTreeNode "ky_Tree" ,"Node0"
 uia.ExpandTreeNode "ky_Tree" ,"Node0;Node2"
 uia.ExpandTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"

'Perform Select Node Operation
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree" ,"Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"

'Perform Expand an select node operation
 uia.ExpandTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node1"
 uia.SelectTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node1;Node17"

'Collapse all the tree nodes
 uia.CollapseTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0"
 uia.CollapseTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2"
 uia.CollapseTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node0;Node2;Node3"
 uia.CollapseTreeNode "ky_Tree", "Node1"

'Select Value from the List view
 uia.SelectFromDropDown "ky_List1" ,"Third"

'Select Third Tab
 uia.Select "ky_TabPage3"

'Set the values in data grid
 uia.SetCellData "ky_DataGrid", 1,1 ,Cstr(Time)
 uia.SetCellData "ky_DataGrid",1,2 ,"Test"
 uia.SetCellData "ky_DataGrid",1,3 ,Cstr(Time)

'Reset the root
 uia.ResetRoot

'Close the Window
 uia.CloseWindow "ky_Main"

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'Declare the root object
 oWindow = "Window,Name::Calculator"

'By using this , the hierarchy can be skipped as below
 oTwo = "Button,Name::Two"
 oThree = "Button,Name::Three"
 oFour = "Button,Name::Four"
 oResult = "Text,AutomationId::CalculatorResults"

'Open Calculator App
 Set oShell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
 oShell.Run "Calc"

'Wait for the button to show up
 bSync = uia.Exist(oWindow)
 util.Wait(1)

'Set the parent window as root - This will improve the script performance
'All the objects will be located considering this window as root instead of desktop
 uia.SetRoot oWindow

'Set algorithm to search anywhere under root
 uia.SearchElementBySubtree()

'Click on 2,3,4 buttons
 uia.Click oTwo
 uia.Click oThree
 uia.Click oFour

'Fetch the result
 sText = uia.GetProperty(oResult,"Name")

'Make validation 
 If sText="Display is 234"  Then
   Logger.Pass "Step1", "Calculator displays correct result", True
 Else
   Logger.Fail "Step1", "Calculator displays incorrect result as" & sText, True
 End If

'Set the desktop as the default Parent
 uia.ResetRoot

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'Describe the object properties
 oWindow = "Window,Name::Calculator"
 oTwo = "Window,Name::Calculator>==>Button,Name::Two"
 oThree = "Window,Name::Calculator>==>Button,Name::Three"
 oFour = "Window,Name::Calculator>==>Button,Name::Four"

'Open Calculator App
 Set oShell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
 oShell.Run "Calc"

'Wait for Window to show up
 bSync = uia.Exist(oWindow)
 util.Wait(1)

'Click on 2,3,4 buttons
 uia.Click oTwo
 uia.Click oThree
 uia.Click oFour

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