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Commercial alternative to Sikuli

Asked by daluu

This is just an FYI to the Sikuli community. Not sure if this should be a FAQ or HOW-TO though.

Just found out about a similar but commercial test tool at Silicon Valley Code Camp: SeeTest from Experitest.com.

It appears to use similar automation method by OCR/images and has a similar IDE. But it has enhancements like mobile device testing through emulators already built in and integration with QTP and TestComplete, along with code generation for a variety of languages rather than just Python and Java.

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daluu (cuuld) said : 		#1

What a coincidence to have 2 tools that are very similar in design. No copycats intended I hope.

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Parva Thakkar (parva-email) said : 		#2

The difference would be free and paid software. The software you mentioned looks like a paid software and there is also seems no way community can involved. This difference can specifically be identified as a difference between HP's Quick Test Professional and Selenium or Cucumber. While HP's tool is paid software and worked great in early 2000, its no great tool for agile environment and community is not involved. While other tools are not only free but great for current environment and welcome community to be involved in everything starting coding to documentation.

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daluu (cuuld) said : 		#3

Yes, I know that difference of free vs paid software. And for free there's also free as in use of executable (freeware) vs free in use of executable plus source code (open source).

I posted this as an FYI to the community is all, not to promote the paid solution.

To me, the main interest is that the paid solution is quite similar in design (of the IDE) and functionality to Sikuli. Not that it is better or anything. It just happens to have additional features that Sikuli doesn't.

It is rare to find two tools that are very similar (so I think). Like Eclipse vs some commercial tool with IDE built on Eclipse. Or Selenium IDE vs some commercial tool that has a very similar IDE (built on Selenium IDE?). I guess perhaps there is some chance Experitest built there SeeTest IDE based on or on top of Sikuli IDE, or maybe just mere coincidence. But I leave that for others to look into. Although I think MIT license that Sikuli uses does allow you to build on top of the existing code, if you keep the license notice.

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