Windows application automation using QAF - selenium

Question

I'm looking support for automate windows application like notepad using Qmetry automation framework with BDD steps. is there any link or solution to implement. I tried with Appium driver but didn't work.
Step1: open Notepad
Step2: enter "Some text"[enter link description here][1]
Success log:
Windows Application Driver listening for requests at: http://127.0.0.1:4723/
Press ENTER to exit.
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POST /session HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 258
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Host: 127.0.0.1:4723
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.2 (Java/16.0.2)
{"capabilities":[{"desiredCapabilities":{"app":"C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe","platformName":"Windows"}},{"requiredCapabilities":{}}],"desiredCapabilities":{"app":"C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe","platformName":"Windows"},"requiredCapabilities":{}}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 141
Content-Type: application/json
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GET /session/3E4610D7-9EBB-4998-921B-94220578D3F1 HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: 127.0.0.1:4723
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.2 (Java/16.0.2)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 90
Content-Type: application/json
{"status":0,"value":{"app":"C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe","platformName":"Windows"}}
Failure log:
Windows Application Driver listening for requests at: http://127.0.0.1:4723/
Press ENTER to exit.
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POST /wd/hub/session HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 641
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Host: 127.0.0.1:4723
User-Agent: selenium/3.141.59 (java windows)
X-Idempotency-Key: 202d0858-641b-4263-88b9-4b5b1ed0ecc1

Answer 1

You didn't provided what you tried and what is the error you are getting.
In order to automate windows native application you need to use appium windows driver. Windows driver is appium implementation so you can use it like android or ios appium driver.
You can refer
How to run native app on appium
Driver specific documentation for set up and other driver specific requirements
Sample working configuration.
EDIT: Below sample works fine:
Properties for setting capabilities
remote.port=4723
driver.name= appiumDriver
appium.additional.capabilities={"app":"C:\\Windows\\System32\\notepad.exe","driverClass":"io.appium.java_client.windows.WindowsDriver"}
#appium.capabilities.driverClass=io.appium.java_client.windows.WindowsDriver
#appium.capabilities.app=C:\\Windows\\System32\\notepad.exe
It worked well as normal web driver test without issue:
import static com.qmetry.qaf.automation.step.CommonStep.sendKeys;
import static com.qmetry.qaf.automation.util.StringMatcher.exact;
import static com.qmetry.qaf.automation.ui.webdriver.ElementFactory.$;
...
#Test
public void testCanEditInNotpad(){
getDriver().verifyTitle(exact("Untitled - Notepad"));
getDriver().findElementByClassName("Edit").sendKeys("it worked!...")
$("className=Edit").sendKeys(" This also worked!...");
sendKeys(" Common Step worked as well!...", "className=Edit");
}