Sikuli is a visual technology to automate and test graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots) of the software under test. Sikuli Script is a visual scripting API for Jython. Sikuli IDE is an integrated development environment for writing visual Sikuli scripts with screenshots. Sikuli Script can automate anything visible on a screen. It can be used, like, Selenium

Selenium (software)

Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language . It also provides a test domain-specific language to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including...

 to control a web page but also a Windows/Linux/Mac OS X desktop application, or even an iphone or android application running in a simulator or via VNC.

See also

• List of GUI testing tools
• Xpresser, is a clean room implementation of the concepts explored by Sikuli, in the form of a Python library which can be used standalone, or embedded into other programs and testing frameworks such as Mago. The project is sponsored by Canonical, and licensed under the LGPL.

Press Coverage

• Picture-driven computing by MIT News office
• MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli by Slashdot
• Sikuli Automates Almost Anything with Screenshot Ease by LifeHacker
• Screen-Capture Programming: What You See is What You Script by IEEE Computing Now
• MIT Creates Picture-Driven Programming for the Masses by CIO
• MIT project lets you author code with screenshots, pictures by DigitalBeat
• Sikuli uses screen shots to run scripts, is amazing by DownloadSquad
• 麻省理工学院开发新编程技术：用截图代替代码 by Sina
• MITの研究者が画面ショットを用いるスクリプト言語を開発 by ComputerWorld.jp
• 真正神乎其技的图形化编程：MIT推出面向大众编程语言Sikuli by CSDN
• Sikuli pilote le Mac avec des screenshots by MacGeneration.com

External links

• Sikuli Project home page
• Sukuli Project blog