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Spy(Element Identification) tool for automating windows 10 applications

I was recently automating windows application and searching for spy tools to identify windows 10 elements. I found “WAD UIRecorder” tool which works better compare to other spy tools in Windows 10.

Follow below steps to download and configure “WAD UIRecorder”:

Step1: Below is the link to download the spy tool.

https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/releases

Step2: Click on “WinAppDriver UI Recorder” Header.

Step3: Download the “WinAppDriverUIRecorder.zip” file

Step4: Extract downloaded zip file

Step5: Double click on WinAppDriverUiRecorder.exe 

Step6: It will open recorder window. Click on Record button to record the session of windows application.

Other tools used to Spy or identify windows elements:

  1. AutoIt
  2. WinSpy

 

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Amit Bharamasali
Automation Software Test Engineer. Skills: Manual Testing, Selenium, Java, Protractor, JavaScript, Katalon Studio, Groovy, Appium, Sahi, Sahi Script and UI/UX testing.

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