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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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

In this guide, we will walk you through the steps that you need for running an AskUI self-hosted runner on your local Windows machine. The AskUI self-hosted runner is a self-hosted component that downloads your workflows from AskUI Studio and runs them on the device it is hosted at. So this guide presumes that you already have an account for the AskUI Studio as well as know how to create a workflow in it.

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.

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.

This guide is designed to assist you to leverage our web-based automation environment, AskUI Studio. In particular, we will be focusing on generating a printable calendar, and downloading it in PDF from a dedicated website. By the end of this tutorial, you will be equipped with the basic knowledge to utilize AskUI Studio to interact with a website and handle pop-up dialogs for printing and downloading files.