Windows Application Driver is a service to support UI Test Automation of Windows Applications. The service design subscribes to the Mobile JSON Wire Protocol standard. If you've been looking for better support for using Appium to test Windows Applications then this service is for you!

This Github project provides

• documentation
• samples
• issue tracking

Videos about WinAppDriver
https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Build/2016/Panel-Engineering-Quality (With Jonathan Lipps!)
https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Build/2016/P499 (Includes demos)

Go to https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/110705-universal-windows-platform and enter requests under the UI Testing category.

1. Download Windows Application Driver Installer here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/7/687DEE85-E907-4A95-8035-8BC969B9EA95/WindowsApplicationDriver.msi
2. Run the Installer on the machine where you will run your test in (the application under test should also be installed on this machine)
3. Browse to the Windows Application Driver installation directory and run WinAppDriver.exe

When running WinAppDriver.exe a console window is opened which logs the JSON Wire Protocol HTTP requests

Default listening address is 127.0.0.1:4723. You can configure WinAppDriver.exe to listen to a different IP address and port if you run it as administrator.

1. see Samples/C# in this github project. Open one of the test solutions with Visual Studio 2015. For example, pull and open CalculatorTest.sln under CalculatorTest
2. In Visual Studio 2015 with the test solution open build the test and select Test > Run > All Tests

1. see Samples/Java in this github project. Open the sample folder as an existing project in a Java IDE such as IntelliJ. For example: CalculatorTest
2. In the Java IDE build and run the test

Windows Application Driver supports testing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Classic Windows (Win32) apps on Windows 10 PC

You can choose any programming language or tools supported by Appium/Selenium to write your test scripts. In the example below, we will author the test script in C# using Microsoft Visual Studio 2015.

1. Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
2. Create the test project and solution. I.e. select New Project > Templates > Visual C# > Test > Unit Test Project
3. Once created, select Project > Manage NuGet Packages... > Browse and search for Appium.WebDriver
4. Install the Appium.WebDriver NuGet packages for the test project
5. Starts writing your test (see sample code under samples)

To test a UWP app, you can use any Selenium supported language and simply specify the Application Id for the app under test in the app capabilities entry. Below is an example of creating a test session for Windows Alarms & Clock app written in C#:

// Launch the AlarmClock app
DesiredCapabilities appCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
appCapabilities.SetCapability("app", "Microsoft.WindowsAlarms_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App");
AlarmClockSession = new IOSDriver<IOSElement>(new Uri("http://127.0.0.1:4723"), appCapabilities);

// Control the AlarmClock app
AlarmClockSession.FindElementByAccessibilityId("AddAlarmButton").Click();
AlarmClockSession.FindElementByAccessibilityId("AlarmNameTextBox").Clear();

When testing the application you authored yourself, you can find the Application Id in the generetated AppX\vs.appxrecipe file under RegisteredUserNmodeAppID node. E.g. c24c8163-548e-4b84-a466-530178fc0580_scyf5npe3hv32!App

To test a classic Windows app, you can also use any Selenium supported language and specify the full executable path for the app under test in the app capabilities entry. Below is an example of creating a test session for Windows Notepad app:

// Launch Notepad
DesiredCapabilities appCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
appCapabilities.SetCapability("app", @"C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe");
NotepadSession = new IOSDriver<IOSElement>(new Uri("http://127.0.0.1:4723"), appCapabilities);

// Control the AlarmClock app
NotepadSession.FindElementByClassName("Edit").SendKeys("This is some text");

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 by default includes Windows SDK that provides great tool to inspect the application you are testing. This tool allows you to see every UI element/node that you can query using Windows Application Driver. This inspect.exe tool can be found under the Windows SDK folder such as C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86