appium-windows-driver

Overview

Per the appium-windows-driver repository:

"Appium Windows Driver is a test automation tool for Windows devices and acts as a proxy to Microsoft's WinAppDriver server."

It is the Appium-ecosystem wrapper in front of Microsoft's WinAppDriver.exe (awd). The Node.js driver itself is actively maintained (see awd for the current release), while the underlying WinAppDriver service is described on the [Appium ecosystem driver page][appiumdrivers] as "has not been maintained since 2022", which is why the wrapper now includes a built-in installer (appium driver run windows install-wad) to pin a known-good WinAppDriver version.