NI TestStand & Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

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I was wondering if anyone could offer an opinion or make a suggestion regarding the use of NI TestStand & Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software. I need to automate a window application, provided by another vendor, and there is no API or command line interface. I have investigated several RPA solutions and at this point AutoHotKey and MacroScheduler both seem to contain the features that are required and seem relatively easy to use and modify. I am primarily concerned about repeatability since the test software I am creating will be utilized for production testing. Please reply if you have any experience with the mentioned RPA software of any other solution.

[WireWeaver · Accepted solution]

I helped someone do something similar a while back, you might find the content here useful:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-TestStand/Controlling-a-command-line-interface-with-Teststand/m-p/368749...

In general, I'd say solutions like this are a hack at best. If you haven't already, reach out to the other Vendor and see if there's any more info they can provide. "No API or Command Line Interface" usually means "No properly documented API or Command Line Interface"... there may be some rough documentation or examples they can share, but isn't complete enough that they want to publicly document and support.

Hope this helps!

Trent