Start Winium Server Automatically and Launch Application

To start using Winium, there are specific steps to be followed.

Step 1: Add Maven Dependency to your POM.xml

Create a maven project and copy-paste the below repository into the pom.xml. Check latest dependency here

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.github.2gis.winium/winium-webdriver -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.2gis.winium</groupId>
    <artifactId>winium-webdriver</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.0-1</version>
</dependency>

Step 2: Download The Driver.exe File

Download the Winium driver exe (Winium.Desktop.Driver.zip) file from here 

• Once finished, extract the zip folder and copy the exe file to your desired directory.
• So commonly, by default, it opens with port 9999, and this port acts as the server.
• Consider it the bridge.
• This bridge communicates through the JSON Wireless protocol.

Step 3: Add below code to your class

public class SimpleTest
{
    DesktopOptions options;
    WiniumDriverService service;
    WiniumDriver driver;

    @BeforeTest
    public void bt()
    {
        //Instantiate Winium Desktop Options
        options = new DesktopOptions();
		
        // Path of application you want to run and test
        options.setApplicationPath("C:\\Windows\\System32\\calc.exe");
		
        //Path for Winium Desktop Driver
        File driverPath = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir")+File.separator+"drivers"+File.separator+"Winium.Desktop.Driver.exe");
		
        //Port is 9999, you can change it
        service = new WiniumDriverService.Builder().usingDriverExecutable(driverPath).usingPort(9999).withVerbose(true).withSilent(false).buildDesktopService();
		
        try
        {
             service.start();
		}
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            System.out.println("Exception while starting WINIUM service");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        driver = new WiniumDriver(service,options);
    }

    @AfterTest
    public void at()
    {
        service.stop();
    }
}