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cforeman
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2 years ago

Overriding mouse cursor focus running Cucumber tests for a desktop application

Hi - I would be very grateful for some help, advice or even random ideas! We have a very large desktop application which runs overnight cucumber test suites (well over 1000 scenarios with multiple s...
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mancy34
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26 days ago

The easiest solution would be to run the tests inside a separate Windows VM or remote desktop session, so the automation gets its own mouse/keyboard focus. A second physical mouse won’t really help because Windows still has one active input focus.