What is SikuliX?
SikuliX is an open-source test automation tool that can automate anything you see on the screen. It uses image recognition to identify and control GUI components, enabling cross-platform testing of desktop, mobile and web applications.
Key features of SikuliX include:
- Automation based on visual UI components, not internal code structures
- Cross-platform support for Windows, Mac and Linux systems
- Image-based identification of buttons, inputs, menus and other UI elements
- Scripting in Python and Jython to automate UI interactions
- Support for all common UI frameworks like Swing, Windows Forms, WPF, GTK+ etc.
- Portable and self-contained, no dependencies to install
SikuliX allows you to write test automation scripts by taking screenshots of the UI components you want to interact with. This makes tests resilient to UI changes compared to approaches based on internal frameworks. Tests will continue to work even if the UI is redesigned.
The tool is useful for test automation engineers, QA teams, developers and anyone wanting to automate repetitive GUI testing tasks. It can integrate with continuous integration workflows and DevOps pipelines thanks to command line support and scripting.
Snagit, CamScanner, Microsoft Lens, ABBYY Screenshot Reader, Sikuli, Capture2text, Crow Translate, OSS Document Scanner, GImageReader, Tesseract, NormCap, OpenScan, AutoPilot Deno are some alternatives to SikuliX.