UI test framework used by MS Teams and VSCode for Electron

Question

I'm stugging to find a good (free) front end testing tool for an Electron app (executable) and, since Microft have two major applications which use Electron, thought Microsoft must have some great tools for this. TestCafe provides some support but not enough for our application. There is PlayWright, which I suspect Microsoft might use since it's developing it, but cannot find any confirmation of this.

Does anyone know what Microsoft uses? Or have any insight into good Electron front end testing tools?

Thanks m

Answer 1

Hi @Glofladru ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Please check this blog: WinAppDriver and Desktop UI Test Automation. Perhaps you can try to use Appium with WinAppDriver.

Best Regards,
Tianyu

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Answer 2

Thanks @Anonymous ! The only option would be Selenium but usually I see recommendations to use Selenium and Spectron. However Spectron has been depracated by Microsoft so it is most likely not an option. However, from searches related to your post I found this.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/60863318/4612820

Possibly an option!

Still, I wonder what the MS Teams and VSCode developers use to test the front end of their products.