I'm working on Automation testing applications having few parts in flash using selenium webdriver. After seraching a lot couldn't find a way to automate flash apps. Can anyone give some suggestions or any help? Anyone tested flash apps using "selenium webdriver"?

At Moolya we were successful doing flash automation using Ranorex, Sikuli and Selenium. Selenium offered limited capability compared to Ranorex.

You can use any of the two tools below for automating flash applications First is Genie which mainly focuses on automating flash applications. It interacts with the flash components of application to perform actions. http://sourceforge.net/adobe/genie/wiki/Home/ Second approach you could use is to identify images instead of flash components using sikuli. Sikuli is a pattern based automation tools which identifies images to perform action. http://www.sikuli.org/ I would recommend sikuli if the application is small and not much of the UI changes when performing actions.

Almost every browser vendor is ditching flash. And it is highly unlikely that it will survive any notable time. The last told report was less than 24 months. So still running flash itself is a bad and of course it's your business decision. Having said that spending time or money to automate flash is a bad idea. Just keep it manually tested. On the other hand, Adobe actually is coming up with a new platform called Adobe Animate. That might be different but still I don't believe Selenium can support it. By far Sikuli is the only open source stuff to do it. But using Sikuli for flash is still not the effective way of automation. You have to go for paid tools at this moment.