Road to create test script using Pywinauto

Pywinauto is python based GUI automation tool, using this we can automate windows application.

Set up:

To set up pywinauto you need to install some prerequisite in you machine as mentioned below.
 1. Python
 2. SendKeys (SendKeys-0.3.win32-py2.6.exe)
 3. setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.6.exe.

Download pywinauto from link http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto/files/ and unzip in your machine.
Open command prompt and go to unzip folder “pywinauto” and run command

 python setup.py install

To check you have it installed correctly

run Python

>>> import application

>>> app = application.Application().start_("notepad")

>>> app.notepad.TypeKeys("%FX")

Here is a simple (Notepad .py) notepad script of pywinauto.

   import time

   import unittest, time, re

   from pywinauto import application

   from pywinauto import findwindows

   class Notepad(unittest.TestCase):

     def setUp(self):       

        self.app = application.Application()       

        self.app.start_(ur"notepad.exe")

        self.app['Notepad'].Wait('ready')

     def test_Save_Notepad(self):      

        app = self.app       

        app.Notepad.MenuSelect("Help->About Notepad")

        time.sleep(2)

        app.AboutNotepad.OK.Click()       

        app.notepad.TypeKeys("pywin auto notepad script")       

        app['Notepad'].MenuSelect("File->Save As...")      

        app.SaveAs.FileNameEdit.SetEditText("TestScript.txt")       

        app.SaveAs.Save.Click()

        time.sleep(2)      

        if app.SaveAs.Yes.Exists():

            app.SaveAs.Yes.Click()      

        app['Notepad'].MenuSelect("File->Exit")

   if __name__ == "__main__":

      unittest.main()

run above test using command 

 python Notepad.py