I am looking for some software I can work with that will allow me to test that programs were installed and are functioning correctly. Instead of opening each program manually and see it working, I would like something similar to automated unit/integration testing for software development.
I've looked into things like AutoHotKey and Sikuli which seem promising but don't quite meet what I need and they require dependencies to be installed on the system which I am not a huge fan of.
A use case I imagine would be like installing Microsoft Word on a system. I would be able to run this script/program that would open the program itself, open a new document, write some lines to that document, and save the file. This would "prove" that this functionality in Word is working correctly.
Here is essentially what I am looking for:
- Able to open/run programs
- Able to perform tasks in those programs
- Unit test oriented
- Able to output pass/fail for tests
- Able to run on Windows 7 or later
- Can be run off of USB drive alone
- Preferably script oriented (i.e. using Python or lua)
Any ideas or suggestions? I am unaware of industry standards if there are any for this. I am also not completely opposed to writing custom software to integrate with some existing APIs but I would like it to be easy to write and modify tests.
