Testing Tauri desktop apps - writing end-to-end tests in Rust for Desktop GUIs

[joepio]

I've been having a blast using Tauri for my new project, Atomic-Server, but I'm having a bit of a problem: I want to run end-to-end tests, but I have no idea how. Since my app is also a web app, I use playwright to end-to-end test most GUI parts of the code, but taht still leaves at least some parts of functionality untested in the tauri sections, like:

• In desktop mode, does the window open and do I see the right page?
• Do my mouse and keyboard inputs work correctly?
• Is the system tray icon visible?
• Do the menu items show the correct content, and do they behave correctly?

I have no idea as to how I could automatically test things like this. In my dream scenario, I'd have a tool similar to playwright, where I could programatically trigger and access desktop GUI elements. Also ideally, I could run this as part of cargo test.

Some projects that might be interesting:

• WinAppDriver (but hard to use for me, a mac user)
• Katalon (but paid, not open source)
• Winium (again, windows only)
• TestArchitect

I'm mostly wondering: what are you using? What works? Is there a different approach to end-to-end testing / desktop GUI automation?

[JonasKruckenberg]

Tauri supports the webdriver interface on Windows and Linux through tauri-driver.
We have examples and documentation for WebdriverIO and Selenium so you might want to take a look at those!
https://tauri.studio/docs/testing/webdriver/introduction

Edit: If you're looking for rust-only tests, there is this selenium style client thirtyfour that looks interesting.

[joepio]

Thanks!

[dharmaturtle]

New link: https://tauri.app/v1/guides/testing/webdriver/introduction