Automate Human Activity software

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Automate Human Activity software

Hi there

Anyone know any softwares that can simulate human interaction on desktop browser specifically by clicking or entering some data and run some report and print automatically obviously with some programming behind this. Main, it will be used for reducing business process steps on human interaction day to day activity (possibly testing purpose in the future).

I am appreciated your comment or input.

Thanks

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I tried a few different automation tools myself when trying to automate desktop software, one is AutoIt which is one of the most complete in my opinion. It helps to automate small tasks, ie: select a window and press a button to do the rest. It even has a macro recorder to get you started.

ebt 2010-07-03 00:02:42

@ebt: can this one put some business logic or coding perhaps?

dewacorp.alliances 2010-07-03 02:01:55

Most all windows automation software heavily depends on being able to get the class id's. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632596(VS.85).aspx ). If your application does not register id's its like trying interact with a glass pane, no footholds to tie business logic to. For the coding itself Autoit has it's own language thats based upon VBScript.

ebt 2010-07-03 03:41:28

@ebt: How about browser? Can this AutoIt handle this?

dewacorp.alliances 2010-07-03 09:02:07

yes, it has a package that can interact with Internet explorer pretty well. I would add that for browser automation it is hard to beat Selenium, which others have noted, unless you are more comfortable with vbs. http://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/UDF#Browsers

ebt 2010-07-03 09:29:58

@ebt: Can this one handle the following condition? In the browser it has client name in the dropdownlist then based on that selection it generates another dropdownlist for users list which varies from one client to another (it can be 1 user or 10 users). Then from there it clicks the button to generate report from some instance.

dewacorp.alliances 2010-07-05 03:43:48

Yes, Autoit can handle that sort of interaction. Do you have the ability to code? a lot of languages have the ability to simplify interaction with web servers through posting data rather than automating browsers. Where Autoit really shines is desktop software automation because of the lack of other good options.

ebt 2010-07-05 07:25:50

I tend to use python to handle form submission posts of the type you are talking about.

ebt 2010-07-05 07:26:18

+1 A:

Telerik WebUI Test Studio

Watir

Selenium

...to name a few

Dave Swersky 2010-07-03 00:02:57

yep, selenium and watir are the one's i use - will take a look at telerik

stephenmurdoch 2010-07-03 00:10:59

can this automate selection dropdownlist, select the report link and then print report and save into local disc?

dewacorp.alliances 2010-07-03 02:00:15

+1 A:

To keep up with the namedropping, here's 2 APIs for Java:

Robot

Abbot (Built on top Robot)

cwap 2010-07-03 00:08:51

ansaurus

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