First automation flow

Demo application overview

Create a new flow

Start Application building block

Capturing an application

Run the flow in preview mode

Capturing fields

Inserting values

Recording and activity log

Conclusion

Intro

Open Application in Power Automate for Desktop

Close Application

Click UI element in window

Create a Dynamic Selector

Extract data from window

Get subtext

Alan and Isaias discussed how to use UIA for browser automation and Accessibility Insights for Windows for more info.

Interact with controls using value, grid item, expand/collapse, scroll item, and selection patterns.

Set the value pattern to change the name of a folder automatically using UIA.

Find the element, get/set the value, and click the button to automate the process.

Use WinExist to get a handle to a window, then use UIA's element from handle to connect to the Chrome element for browser automation.

Create a tool to automate Chrome actions using the UIA object and value pattern for the element's automation ID.

Get familiar with UIA to find elements and learn more about UIL automation for Auto Hobby.

Learning web scraping and API calls can be challenging due to the complexity of the methods and properties.

Intro

How to Design for UIA

Behaviors & Patterns

Anatomy of a Control

Bounding Rectangle

UIA Event Settings

UIA Standard Controls

Using the setValue Method

UIA PropertyChanged Event

Summary and Conclusion

Introduction

The scenario

Get all Excel files (.xls, .xlsx and .xlsm) in folder

Iterate through all the Excel files using the "for each" loop

Reading Excel data (of variable size) using "get first free row/column from Excel worksheet" and "read from Excel worksheet" actions (remember to enable the option "first line of range contains column names")

Creating a subflow to improve modularity, readability and maintainability of the overall desktop flow

Check if an app is already opened using "if window" action; if not, start the app using the "run application" action

How to reference the items in the current datarow

Using "run subflow" action to trigger the subflow from the main flow

Update Excel using "write to Excel worksheet" action; this requires a row counter so that we are always updating the Transaction ID into the correct row

Create another subflow to terminate Excel and AnyTellerDemo application; this subflow will be run at the start and end of the main flow

Using "move file" action to move all the processed files into a success folder

Ui Automation

End-to-End Testing

Verification

Parallel Executions per Browser

Browser Automation

Webdriver Io

Atomic Non-Repeating Tests

Use Headless Browsers

Visual Regression Testing

Understand the Dependencies

Automate programs in the background using UI Automation Library to separate elements, patterns, and text ranges.

Use Accessibility Insights Inspect and UI automation to test the clickability and toggleability of the "add to library" button in Spotify.

Use the Runtime ID to identify elements in code, and be careful not to reuse the same element as it may change.

Create a hotkey to toggle the Spotify element using UI Automation and the HK Executable function.

Set up a hotkey to toggle the like/dislike button and the play/pause button using invoke and switch statements.

Searching in a specific area of Spotify, you can limit your search and create hotkeys for buttons using patterns and positioning.

Use GetCurrentPropertyValue with the Property ID from the UIA Enumerations to check if an element supports a certain pattern.

When automating with AutoHotkey, make sure to restore the window, perform the action, and minimize it again to avoid bringing it to the front.

Create a custom reusable flow

Searching for a contact person

Text Field Automation

Selecting radio buttons

Automation: Amount Field

Compare building block

Comparison methods

Branching your flow based on a value

Using a Compare Block

Conclusion

Creating First Project

Launching a browser

Test Explorer Window

Playback.Wait method

Draw Highlight

Enhancement of Launch method

Test Run

Conclusion

What is Selenium?

How Selenium WebDriver works?

Software and Tools Required

How to add Selenium WebDriver in C#.NET project?

Selenium Chrome Driver Installation

Add Aspect Flow

Step Definition class

Creating a Feature

Conclusion

Intro

Test project setup

Playwright Steps

Playwright installation

Create a feature file

Creating steps

Selectors in Playwright

Using a separate browser context

Validate the error message

Why use Specflow?