Katalon Studio with Winium for Desktop Applications
Katalon Studio only supports WebUI, Mobile, and API automation testing, as you may know. However, there is a solution for this issue, and it involves using the Winium.jar package to test desktop apps.
Use the given steps:
🎯 Step 1: Visit the Winium release page to download and unzip Winium.Desktop.Driver.zip from Winium.Desktop GitHub release page.
🎯 Step 2: Start Winium.Desktop.Driver.exe.
🎯 Step 3: Get the jar package now by downloading it.
🎯 Step 4: Add the two jar packages from Katalon Studio's Project Settings > External Libraries.
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Winium-elements-desktop-0.2.0-1.jar
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Winium-webdriver-0.1.0-1.jar.
🎯 Step 5: In Katalon Studio, import the Winium driver and run the script.
Object Identification and Tool Optimization in Katalon Studio
You can use the given tips and tricks:
🍁 Trick 1: If a fixed ID attribute is available, use it without fail. Collaborate with the dev team to add an ID to each web element during front-end development. If the ID is dynamic (changes with each page load), try using other properties and the advice below.
🍁 Trick 2: Try to employ attributes that, depending on your system under test (SUT), rarely change, such as name, ID, text, etc.
🍁 Trick 3: Avoid using attributes like dynamic ID, width, height, x, and y, which depend on the screen resolution when used in other settings.
🍁 Trick 4: We can use other attributes that uniquely identify the object if the ID attribute is not present. Additionally, use the combination of attributes to narrow down the XPath.
🍁 Trick 5: Ensure you don't use too many different qualities.
🍁 Trick 6: Use the Relative XPath statements rather than the Absolute XPath ones.
In capturing and static defining objects, you should never use XPath indexes to identify an object. It is unreliable, and even the slightest change could cause XPath to malfunction.
🍁 Trick 7: If two objects on a given web page have the same property value, try to identify a nearby object with a unique identity before locating the desired object.
🍁 Trick 8: Tools for locating items in web apps include the Firefox browser add-ons Firebug and FirePath. The main difference from an automation tester's view is that the first one returns Absolute XPath while the second returns Relative XPath.
Mobile Testing Execution
We will discuss the trick to reduce the execution time in Mobile Testing. We advise starting the app once in the first test case. Then restarting it in each future test case with the given snippet to speed up the execution of a test suite:
import com.kms.katalon.core.mobile.keyword.internal.MobileDriverFactory
import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver
AppiumDriver driver = MobileDriverFactory.getDriver();
driver.resetApp()
Managing Android's permission in Katalon Studio
You must specify the required abilities for 'autoGrantPermissions' to control Android permissions:
/** All permissions should be enabled. * @param isEnable */
@Keyword
public static void EnablePermission(boolean isEnable) {
DesiredCapabilities.android().setCapability("autoGrantPermissions", isEnable);
}
Understand waiting keywords in Katalon Studio
Regardless of the failure handling options you selected, Katalon Studio returns a result (either True or False) and a warning message when a condition is not met.
In other words, even if a test fails, Katalon Studio keeps operating. Similar to selecting the Optional value for failure handling, this action.
Failure handling will occur if the waiting keyword fails for any reason, including a network issue, session timeout, or the AUT not starting.
For instance, Katalon Studio only provides a True or False response when you use the waiting keyword WaitForElementPresent to check whether an element is present. Katalon Studio provides a False result and displays a warning message (Failure Handling = Optional) if the element is not visible on the active view.
Authentication in the Katalon Studio
Authentication in the Katalon Studio WebUI is done via AutoIt. The WebUI.authenticate keyword in Katalon Studio would function well on Firefox, but for unknown reasons, other browsers would not be able to use the feature.
This article will show you how to use AutoIt as a workaround for managing authentication on various browsers.
This would apply to Edge, Firefox, and Chrome.
Visit the Katalon download page to get the most recent version of Katalon Studio.
Install AutoIt at the AutoIT download site(Autoit Full Installation and AutoIt Script Editor).
Frequently Asked Questions
What can we accomplish using Katalon Studio?
It is a powerful automation tool with a Selenium-based engine. It was first introduced in January 2015. Katalon is primarily made to allow non-programmers to write and reuse automated test scripts for user interfaces. Pop-ups, iFrames, and wait time may all be tested automatically in Katalon Studio.
Are coding skills necessary for Katalon Studio?
You can use the Katalon Studio with basic coding skills. Katalon offers two scripting interfaces for customers with varying coding skills. It is an easy-to-use automation testing solution that doesn't require highly developed coding abilities to create automated tests.
Is Katalon Studio free to use?
It is free to use. Most of the users find its fully functional free version an advantage. The testing services offered by KMS Technology are used to pay for product development at Katalon.
Conclusion
We have discussed various tips and tricks in Katalon Studio. Further, we discussed Windows commands, katalon studio with winium, and mobile testing execution. We have also discussed object identification and tool optimisation in Katalon Studio. Finally, we discussed authentication in the katalon studio.
We hope this blog has helped you. We recommend you visit our articles on different topics of Katalon Studio, such as
🔥 Keyboard shortcuts in katalon studio.
🔥 Katalon and Important Preferences in Katalon Studio.
🔥 Proxy and test case preferences in Katalon Studio.
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