Can we use selenium for testing desktop applications?

Question

I am testing a WEB and Desktop application (cross OS application: Windows - Mac - Linux) and I'm using RobotFramework to automate the tests.

For the Web I use SeleniumLibrary and it works perfectly . For code reuse reasons, is it possible to use SeleniumLibrary to do the automatic tests for the Desktop application ? Is it possible to interact SeleniumLibrary with desktop application elements ?

user_11622109 · Answer

SeleniumLibrary works on the web so you can't reuse the code for a Desktop App test.

For GUI Apps I suggest you looking to AutoitLibrary or ZoombaLibrary

user_17200418 · Answer

It is impossible. For desktop applications testing you can use pywinauto

However for pywinauto you will need to use your custom libraries. You can have a look at Robtot framework custom libraries

Can we use selenium for testing desktop applications?

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