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By defining the behavior of a system in a structured format like Gherkin, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) enables teams to bridge the gap between stakeholders, testers, and developers, avoiding misunderstandings and reducing rework. In this blog post, we'll show you how to set up Cucumber in conjunction with AskUI to define AskUI workflows using BDD principles.

Johannes Dienst

April 29, 2024

When you use Jira as a testing team it is highly likely that you also use XRAY for testmanagement. So when you run UI-tests with AskUI you want to integrate the test run reports into xray automatically on each run. With the latest version of `askui-reporters` we added the `AskUIXRayStepReporter` that can create XRAY-proprietory-json reports, which offers step-level-reporting with screenshots!

Johannes Dienst

April 22, 2024

Playwright is the de facto standard when it comes to reliably testing browser applications across browsers and operating systems. But what if your workflow under test leaves your browser and requires you to automate on a desktop application? AskUI is not confined to a specific application because it uses visual selectors and real human-user-like input with keypresses and natural mouse movement. This makes it an ideal tool to accompany Playwright.

Johannes Dienst

April 22, 2024

When you automate browser applications there is no way around an automation tool as Selenium. It is optimized for browser interaction and executes blazingly fast. However sometimes you need to leave the confines of your browser to interact with another application or your operating system. This is not possible with Selenium alone.AskUI shines in this regard as it is not limited to a browser with its visual selectors and real input commands like keypresses and mouse movement.

Johannes Dienst

April 10, 2024

AskUI interacts with your operating system like a real human user. This directly leads to code that specifies WHAT you have to do in a specific sequence to achieve a workflow. Unfortunately this also means a lot of repetitive code. This is why we implemented some convenience methods to help you ease these pain points.

Johannes Dienst

March 13, 2024

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT has ushered in a new era in text generation and AI advancements. While tools such as AutoGPT have aimed at task automation, their reliance on underlying DOM/HTML code poses challenges for desktop applications built on .NET/.SAP. The GPT-4 Vision (GPT-4v) API addresses this limitation by focusing on visual inputs, eliminating the need for HTML code.

Murali Kondragunta

February 23, 2024

This blog describes all the steps on how to integrate AskUI into a Pipedream workflow, so we get the benefit of visual selection and user interaction. We do this by implementing a smoke test for a login form.

Johannes Dienst

February 23, 2024

AskUI shines when you realize a workflow has a complex click path and you want to automate it ad-hoc. This blog post shows you how you can automate a graphics effect I need for YouTube thumbnails: Outline the glow effect of a cropped-out person in Gimp!

Johannes Dienst

February 13, 2024

Choosing a best-suited automation tool for the Desktop apps becomes reasonably important when the developers work over sophisticated legacy systems in complex enterprise environments. This blog discusses the finest Automation tools that automate the desktop app’s functional testing.

Johannes Dienst

January 10, 2024