Run testcomplete from Release Management Deployment Agent

Question

We are developing a series of smoke test with TestComplete, we want to automate the execution of these test with each deploy generated with our Nigthly Build (NB).

So far we are using TFS and MSBuild to generate the NB, in order to deploy the artifacts we use Release Management (RM), with this implementation we deploy to several virtual machines.

Rigth now, RM is deploying our application to the vm as well as the test developed. In one of the vm we had installed the TestComplete, and we try to make that RM runs the smoke test using the console command. We prepared a small script that will be called by the RM Deployment Agent (Agent is a Windows service that runs a NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM). So far the script is called by the agent, but TestComplete runs for a few seconds and crash. If I run the script from my interactive session it runs as expected.

Any Idea???

ghuff2 · Answer

Might want to verify through a support ticket, but I'm fairly certain you have to have an actual user session for TestComplete to work, otherwise there isn't any GUI for it to interact with. I haven't had to try running scripts through RM software, but I know to launch scripts from QAComplete I have to provide credentials for a user account that it can open a session with and then use for running the test.

ghuff2 · Answer

I don't think using TestExecute would change anything. If you don't have a user session open then you won't have a Windows desktop or UI to execute your tests on.

tristaanogre · Answer

So, two things:First of all, TestComplete can be run from command line using similar options as TestExecute so you should still be able to schedule and execute tests overnight using TestComplete since your budget does not include TestExecute licenses.However,&nbsp;ghuff2&nbsp;is correct in that if there is no open user session on your workstation, you cannot run any tests using either TestComplete or TestExecute that requires interaction with the UI of the application under test. &nbsp;If no UI interaction is in your test scripts (such as you're simply testing database values or SOAP messaging), then you won't run into much problems but all other testing will require a valid user session.
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You mention that you are using a VM? Is this on VMWare or a Microsoft Hyper-V terminal? If VMWare, so long as you open a console to your VM somewhere and automate a user login to that console, you should be fine (automation maybe something other than a TestComplete script... perhaps something in PowerShell). Hyper-V can be remotely logged in in a virtual console so it's a bit easier to work with (again, Powershell might help here). But if you don't login to a user session... yeah, sorry... What you experienced is exactly what will hapen.

tristaanogre · Answer

There's no particular "script"... just use whatever you would use in TFS to trigger execution at a command prompt and utilize the command line switches as documented at&nbsp;https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/working-with/automating/command-line-and-exit-codes/command-line.html

alexkaras · Answer

SoumyaN:
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Hi,
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As Robert replied.
But remember: if your scripts interact with the GUI of the tested application, there *must* be an active interactive user desktop session for some account and your tests *must* be executed on behalf of this user and in this given interactive session.
This is the requirement of the operating system. If the tested application is running not within interactive user session, OS does not provides it (application) with the desktop, which means that there is no place to display the UI at and thus tests will fail because UI of the tested application does not exist.

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