java - Has anybody used SIKULI for testing their GUI-based apps?

Question

SIKULI seems to have an enormous amount of potential. Has anybody tried to use this as a tool for testing? Or would it be better suited for automating actions for users?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2125839/has-anybody-used-sikuli-for-testing-their-gui-based-apps

Answer 1

Quoting Unit Testing for GUI (in the project Documentation):

Sikuli is designed to support unit testing for GUI by integrating with junit. The unit testing panel can be opened by clicking on View/Unit Test or by shortcut Cmd-U on Mac (or Ctrl-U on Windows/Linux).

So, while my understanding is that SIKULI is initially aimed at GUI automation, it can definitely be used for GUI testing (which is closely related if you consider that GUI testing = GUI automation + verification framework). Have a look at Unit testing for GUI (JEdit) for a full example (and see the assertXXX on images).

And indeed, I see a big potential in SIKULI for testing as it seems to make writing tests very easy, even without a single line of the real application written (just using some initial mockups for example). SIKULI could become a great companion for various flavor of testing (BDD, acceptance testing, etc).

It' really an amazing piece of software, very impressive.