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# Driving a Desktop App (Computer Use)
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Drive the live app through its accessibility tree, not screen-pixel guesses,
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whenever an accessibility-driven tool is available. The worked example
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throughout is macOS accessibility automation (an app-state dump plus
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element-indexed click/type actions); the same dump-act-re-dump discipline
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applies to any platform's accessibility layer.
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## Dump, act, re-dump
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Before touching anything, pull a full app-state dump — the accessibility
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tree, not a screenshot. Read every element index and role off *that* dump;
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never guess or reuse an index from a previous dump, since insertions and
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removals renumber the tree.
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```text
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get_app_state {app}
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click {app, element_index} # index/role read from the dump above
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type_text {app, text}
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get_app_state {app} # re-dump — did the field you predicted change?
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```
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Re-dump after every action, not just at the end. An action without a
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following dump is a click you can't prove happened — you only have proof once
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you've read the state back and it shows the change.
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## Quote the observed state into the record
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The evidence is the before → after value read from the dump, quoted directly
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into the report or commit — not a description of the click. A counter that
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should now read a higher page, a selection whose label changed after a
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"next" action: put the literal *old value* and *new value* side by side so a
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reader can re-run the same action and check for the same transition. "I
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clicked the button" proves nothing; "field X read `A`, then `B`" is
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falsifiable.
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## Isolate before you drive
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Copy the built app to a throwaway location under a distinct bundle
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identifier and reset its permission grants before scripting it, so a driving
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session can't corrupt the real app's session state or permissions. Build any
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harness the driving needs outside the project's own repo — end-to-end
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driving should never mutate the project under test.
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## The escalation ladder
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Accessibility automation on a real desktop is not always available cleanly.
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Climb a ladder of approaches, and when a rung is blocked, record *why* before
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trying the next one:
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1. **Scripting API** (e.g. an OS-level accessibility scripting bridge) — the
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cheap default. Blocked signature: a permission error before any command
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runs (no Accessibility grant).
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2. **UI-test harness** (a first-class automated-testing framework for the
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platform) — the "proper" way to drive the real app end to end. Blocked
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signature: the harness process itself never establishes its automation
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session (e.g. an unsigned test runner killed before it attaches) — that's
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the harness failing to bootstrap, not a bug in the app under test.
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3. **Raw input injection** (a coordinate-based click/keystroke tool plus a
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screenshot after each action) — the fallback of last resort when both of
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the above are blocked. Coarser than element-indexed driving, so screenshot
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after every action and confirm the click landed on the intended window
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before trusting the result.
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Every rung you tried belongs in the report, including the ones that failed —
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not only the one that worked. Diagnose each blocked rung enough to state the
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failure cleanly (permission denied, session never attached, wrong window
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frontmost) before moving on; a rung abandoned without a stated reason is
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indistinguishable from one you never tried.
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## A blocked ladder is a report, not an excuse
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If every rung is blocked, that is the result: write down what you tried, what
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each rung's failure looked like, and stop there. Never fall back to
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describing what the UI "should" do, and never fabricate a dump or a
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before/after value you didn't actually read back from the running app.
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