This course is an introduction to SikuliX, a tool that lets you write easy scripts to automate pretty much anything you can do on your computer.

What is SikuliX?

• SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix.

• It uses image recognition to identify and control GUI components.

• Besides locating images on a screen it can also run the mouse and the keyboard to interact with the identified GUI elements

• SikuliX comes with basic text recognition that can be used to search text in images.

SikuliX supports the following as scripting languages:

• Python language level 2.7

• Ruby language level 1.9 and 2.0

• JavaScript

• You can also use it in Java programming Java aware programming/scripting language (Jython, JRuby, Scala, Clojure, …).