FlaUI-MCP, episode 1: taking the server remote
Five changes we made after forking FlaUI-MCP so an AI agent on a workstation can drive a Windows app on another machine: HTTP, async jobs, a faster loopback.
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Five lessons from driving a large WPF application through FlaUI-MCP every day: desktop sessions, low-level tools, lossy snapshots, lagging trees, real tests.
A GitHub Actions matrix for Windows, macOS and Linux
Run your tests on Windows, macOS and Linux on every commit with a GitHub Actions matrix: runner labels, shell differences, caching, artefacts and costs.
Automating native desktop apps on Windows, macOS and Linux
Appium's Windows and Mac2 drivers, NovaWindows, pywinauto and AT-SPI tools compared: how to drive native desktop applications on each operating system.
Memory leaks and crashes: the analysis tools for each OS
AddressSanitizer, Valgrind, Instruments, Application Verifier, WinDbg and heaptrack: find leaks, memory corruption and crashes on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Playwright: cross-platform end-to-end testing that holds up
How to run one Playwright suite on Windows, macOS and Linux across Chromium, Firefox and WebKit — setup, flaky-test traps, traces and CI sharding.
Test on Windows, macOS and Linux from one machine
Windows Sandbox, Hyper-V, UTM, Tart, QEMU/KVM and VirtualBox compared: which VM or sandbox to use for cross-platform testing, and the licence limits.