Executing a .bat that internally executes another .bat

[anthony11c]

I just started using WinAppDriver and I have a problem with starting my desktop application in a Selenium-WindowsAppDriver project that I created from scratch.

Let's first explain how I start the app manually. I run the application.bat, which calls the fonts.bat and after that the login screen shows.

Now, I wrote a simple jUnit test in which I'm searching for a element but that is irrelevant now. The problem is that I get an error in the console saying "'fonts.bat' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

Can someone help me? i included a picture of the project folder with the .bat files. I was trying with running intelij as admin, there is no difference.

Is it maybe better to open the app not using the WinAppDriver ? But then, I don't know how would I get the driver to recognize the application.

Here is the code:

public class GlavniIzbornikPage {

    private static WindowsDriver driver = null;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUp() {
        try {
            DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
            capabilities.setCapability("app", "C:\\ppcfg\\application.bat");
            capabilities.setCapability("platformName","Windows");
            capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "WindowsPC");
            driver = new WindowsDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723"), capabilities);
            driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void klik() throws InterruptedException {
        driver.findElementByName("name");
    }

    @AfterMethod
    public void cleanApp(){
        driver.quit();
    }

[Shakevg]

anthony11c Try the next better approach:

1. Run bat from code anthony11c
2. connect to program using process name or app title https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/1578#issuecomment-905453842 https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/534#issuecomment-562030077