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Question #263891 on Sikuli changed:
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Eugene Maslov posted a new comment:
Hi all,
I have been using for several years a recorder which captures the images and puts the actions into the workflow, but finally I found that typing scripts by hands in Sikuli is more efficient, because:
1. Buttons and other screen elements almost always get highlighted and become different when the mouse is over them. Moreover, in most remote desktops, the mouse is drawn on the screenshots. Therefore the recorded images are too often useless for playback with search of the images on the screen.
2. Even if not highlighted, the images are captured without any sense, named mostly by time,  and placed into the scripts by their names. When you have several dozens of test scripts, the system becomes non-maintainable: when programmers change an icon on one button, you have to update manually every script. It's even often easier to record them again than to update. The problem can be solved if you have GUI map of common images and provide that the scripts refer to the same images when you click them during the record, but it will require image recognition capability from the recorder, that can really become a large task. Instead, if you write the script manually, you can do it easily, so that you can change only one image when something changes in the tested application.
3. Manually you write clever scripts, finding screen contents by relative positions with left(), above() etc., so that the scripts survive future GUI changes occurring during software development. But with the automatic recorder,  it's quite difficult to provide that it understands what spatial relations you mean. It's still possible to record the actions and them to edit the script manually, inserting necessary logics, but in this case the recording itself does not save significant time.

So, I suggest, writing a practically useful recorder can require much
more work than it seems initially.

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