hassanuz
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5 years ago My question is: is it possible to use WinAppDriver on VM without making any RDP connections and without using UltraVNC? If it is possible, please, provide a detailed guideline of how it is possible to perform the test on VM using TFS and Jenkins.
It is possible, but I've only tested this on Azure DevOps. On DevOps you don't have to set up or connect to an RDP for the UI Tests to work assuming the agent had been initially set as Interactive Mode with auto sign-in enabled. We have a bit of documentation on getting set-up with CI in DevOps here.
But if you were to sign-in via RDP, then you would have to disconnect the RDP via tscon, otherwise the machine would be locked out and UI tests won't be able to run.
Again, haven't tested this on Jenkins, so I welcome input from anyone that has! Also if anyone has a guide or documentation they'd like to submit for running on CI via Jenkins that would be most welcomed as well. I imagine the scenario would be similar.
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Hi, I am trying to run the tests on a virtual machine using TFS and Jenkins. Firstly, I revert the virtual machine to a snapshot and then start it through powershell inline scripts commands. Afterwards, I am waiting that Jenkins slave service is up to run the Jenkins pipeline. So, in Jenkins pipeline I start the test execution using VS Test Agent (vstest.console.exe). Tests' DLL for debugging purposes are installed in a snapshot, so I don't have to manipulate with git now and focus on the issue. The issue is - I can't run the tests automatically using TFS and Jenkins without remote desktop connection. I have read a lot of articles considering the possibility of GUI testing on VM and all of them were stating that RDP is necessary for the tests and it is not possible to use winappdriver without it.
What I have already tried: 1) I configured VS test agent on VM to run as an interactive process, but this didn't work. 2) Jenkins was running as a service, I have used task scheduler to run slave node in a command line on user logon but it didn't help, for some reason task scheduler doesn't start the Jenkins slave using command line at user log-in. 3) VM uses auto logon feature, but when I start VM from powershell inline script in TFS right after snapshot revert, Jenkins, as was mentioned above, doesn't create a slave session and doesn't even open a cmd window responsible for a slave node establishment (This window pops up only when I try to connect to RDP).
All in all, I receive the following error in Jenkins Pipeline: Failed to locate opened application window with appId
My question is: is it possible to use WinAppDriver on VM without making any RDP connections and without using UltraVNC? If it is possible, please, provide a detailed guideline of how it is possible to perform the test on VM using TFS and Jenkins. Thank you in advantage.