# microsoft/WinAppDriver

Windows Application Driver

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/winappdriver
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: appium, ui-testing, test-automation, windows-10
Last push: 2025-04-14T05:15:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 30/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 16, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3818, "days_push": 506, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4046, forks 1421 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:33.702241+00:00)

## What it is
Windows Application Driver is a service that enables Selenium-like UI test automation for Windows applications, including UWP, WinForms, WPF, and Win32 apps. It runs as a local or remote server listening for Appium/Selenium-style automation requests on Windows 10 PCs.

## Use cases
- automate ui tests for windows desktop applications
- test uwp apps with appium
- run e2e tests for winforms and wpf apps in ci
- drive a win32 app ui programmatically for testing
- set up selenium grid testing for windows apps

## When to choose
- you need Selenium/Appium-style UI automation for Windows applications
- you want to run UI tests in CI pipelines like Azure DevOps
- you need to test UWP, WinForms, WPF, or Win32 apps with one tool

## When to avoid
- you are testing web applications rather than native Windows apps
- you need a tool with active feature development rather than maintenance
- your target platform is not Windows 10

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: testing, e2e-testing, workflow-automation
- domain: testing, windows, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: appium, ui-test-automation, selenium-like, uwp, winforms, wpf, win32, automation

## Member repositories
- microsoft/WinAppDriver (main) score 30

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:33.702241+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:43.363648+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:33.702241+00:00, sha bc7f8a6bcd0a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.