Sikuli is an open-source research project
developed at MIT and is released under the MIT License. It can be used for countless tasks, and
scripts can be exported to an executable to simplify execution. It is also Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
compatible.
Sikuli
is a technology that allows you to automate interacting with graphical user
interfaces (GUI) using screenshots and keystrokes. Developers can quickly write scripts, written
in Python, which interact with any GUI including applications and web
pages. Sikuli is a heavier utility than
AutoHotKey. However it is much more
powerful and serves a different purpose.
The feature that distinguishes Sikuli is interacting with GUIs based on
screenshots. Partial screenshots are
added directly to your script as arguments to methods including click,
double-click, find and exists. When
executed, the desired GUI interaction is achieved using image pattern matching
with the screen.
Another nice thing about Sikuli is that it is an automation
tool with scripts written in a full-blown programming language, Python. This allows you to write complex scripts that
support interacting in a flexible and adaptable manner based on external and
unknown dependencies. Scripts can interact
with error messages, log results, and iterate a number of times that is unknown
during programming and based on GUI elements.
Here are some examples of tasks that can be automated with
Sikuli (website and/or application):
- Boundary testing
- Exhaustively testing user options
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Regression testing
- Applying a base load
- Automatically setting user preferences, changing configuration, opening applications, etc… when logging into a computer
- Automate repetitive steps or tasks during development or debugging
- Ex. Logging in and navigating to a specific area of a website or application
- Any repetitive task
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