Can we automate Application available under Citrix Program Neighbourhood?

Question

I tried to automate an application available under Citrixl Program Neightbourhood using QTP 9.5, but QTP does not identify the objects inside the application. Can we automat

Answer 1

As per my experience this type of setup can be best handled using the Image recognition and/or OCR capable testing tools like eggplant but its not really suggested to have testing environment which includes Citrix. Another option could be to install an automation tool like AutoIT within the Citrix machine and trigger the scripts using the other tool (maybe Selenium but I am yet to try that out).

Answer 2

The difficulty with Citrix automation is that the applications are streamlined to the client computer as an image, thus you can not access to the UI tree of elements.

UiPath can automate very easy Citrix applications (also desktop or web) by using some image automation specific techniques like

• clicking relative to an image
• using OCR for text scraping
• using keyboard hotkeys
• click relative to a OCRed text

Here's a full tutorial showing different Citrix (or virtual desktops) automation techniques for

• data entry
• OCR data scraping
• clicking and typing relative to an image or text

UiPath has an SDK that can be used from code. The default will be to create visual automation (workflows) directly from UiPath Studio.

Note: I work at UiPath. You should also try other visual automation tools like Automation Anywhere, WinAutomation, QTP, Selenium, etc, use them side by side and choose the one that suits better your needs.