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kzumbusch
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9 years ago
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Run TestExecute or TestComplete from Windows service

Hi there,   we recently aquired TestComplete for automated setup, UI and web testing. These tests are run multiple times on different virtual machines on every operating system our application supp...
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    AlexKaras
    9 years ago

    Hi Kay,

     

    Yes, I think that this should work. The only requirement here is that the correct user must be logged-in and have desktop session for the RDP computers.

    I am not sure if the project started as a slave from the master one in the Network Suite will open user session on the slave computer and use it then or not.

    If it is not, then you may consider the free RDP Plus utility that can be provided with (encrypted) user credentials to open the RDP session and then use, say, psexec utility by SysInternals (part of MS now) to start TestComplete remotely within opened user session. (You may even not to use the Network Suite in this case, but code the above two actions in the code started by Windows service.)
    http://community.smartbear.com/t5/Getting-Started-with/Does-TestComplete-Truly-run-Headless-TestExecute-as-well/m-p/93900 might appear to be useful (if you hadn't already read it)

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kzumbusch
Occasional Contributor

Hi Alex,

 

thanks for the help. I really appreciate it. I'll give it a try as soon as I can figure out how to setup a distributed test environment with a node locked evaluation license of TestComplete.

 

Regards

 

Kay Zumbusch

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kzumbusch
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Hi,

 

as the Windows service of ContinuaCI can be run in interactive mode we decided to do just that. We keep the user running the ContinuaCI Agent logged on to the master machine and run TestExecute from that session. That even works if the session is locked.

 

Alex, the permissions requirements for your idea are too vast for our concerns and adding psexec to that scenario is way too scary but it gave us some ideas how to improve security on our CI environment. Thanks for that.

 

As there is no headless mode for TestExecute available at the moment I'll add a post to the feature request forum.

 

Regards

 

Kay Zumbusch