Explain the working of AutoIt Testing Tool and describe advantages and disadvantages of AutoIT | Software Testing Tool

In this article, you will become familiar with the following:

• Working of AutoIT Testing Tool
• Advantages of AutoIT
• Disadvantages of AutoIT

Working of AutoIT Testing Tool

The first step is the installation of the AutoIT testing tool in the system. For installation, simply download the .exe file of AutoIT and install it by clicking on setup.exe. We also need to install Scite Editor.exe to make use of the script editor in AutoIT. Once the installation has taken place, press a right-click on the location where AutoIT is installed and follow the next steps to create a new .au3 file created in the system. 

• Right-click on the new
• Click on AutoIT v3 script
• Write the name of the file
• Press enter button

The above steps create the .au3 file. After this, do right-click on the file and select the edit script option to fetch an AutoIT script editor window. Through this, we can write scripts that help in performing some actions or tasks. 

Advantages of AutoIT

• It permits you to record the actions and playback afterward. It also permits you to write simple scripts. 
• It becomes very easy to debug the loglines with the use of consolewritecommand.
• AutoIT is an open-source testing tool that is freely available in the market.
• It can also help in creating small standalone executables with the help of AutoIT.
• It helps in finding the particular areas through the pixelsearch and pixelchecksum.
• It can access all the basic Windows controls and also has all the options to create the different GUIs.

Disadvantages of AutoIT

• The AU3 Info Tool is not able to find out all types of objects.
• It has no java support for now. 
• No control repository gives the technical and logical name to the object.
• It supports only a few browsers. 
• Users have to import separate libraries for the different utility functions.