Sikuli open source tool to automate UI

1. Automate Anything Using Sikuli
By: Saroj Singh

2. Index
 What is Sikuli
 Platform Independence
 When to Use
 Installation and Integration with Selenium
 Sikuli Demo for Desktop App
 Sikuli Demo for Web Flash
 Advantages
 Limitations

3. Introduction
Sikuli script was developed by User
Interface Design Group, MIT Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL)
Sikuli means “God’s eye” in the language of
native Mexicans.

4. What is Sikuli ?
 Sikuli is a visual technology to automate and test
graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images
(screenshots)
 It automates anything you see on the screen
 It can automate the hardest of the things that is
practically impossible to automate via other major
paid and open source tools available today in the
market.

5. Platform Independence
Works on any GUI displayed on
Mac/Windows/Linux
 Virtual Machines
 Remote Desktops
 Mobile Simulators
 Web: Flash, HTML+, JavaScript
Program against UI
 Sikuli programs are written against the UI instead of API

6. When to Use
Don’t have good programming knowledge?
Want to avoid repeating, boring and
Annoying coding?
Want to Automate something but don’t
have its source code?

7. Installation and Integration with Selenium
 https://sarojqaengineer.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/sik
uli-installation-and-integration-with-webdriver/

8. Sikuli Demo for Desktop App

9. Sikuli for Web Flash Object
 Here is an e.g. to click on a flash button

10. Advantages
Open Source (Free!)
Easy to integrate with almost all
kinds of functional automation f/w
No expert coding knowledge required
Quick outcome !
More intuitive and natural approach

11. Limitations
Highly depends on
resolution, visible area of
the screen
Dealing with moving
animated objects is hard

12. Thank You!
For any help/query contact :
Saroj.singh22011@gmail.com