Webviews can run in a different process as described here. How to run the same application in a separate process? Can I run different windows of the application in a different process?
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I'm using three of the devices to develop. Desktop(Home), MacBook(Work), Laptop(Remote).
I'm developing a web project that needs to build and API server. So I'm running build steps and API server using watch parameter.
However, If I do work at remote or home, I can't start API server because that port already bound by other process that executed by work MacBook terminal. I tried to kill that process, but It restored automatically by watch parameter.
So now I want to use the same terminal session across the multiple devices. I thought maybe I can do this using tmux, but I don't know is there a better solution for this.
Is there available something to do this in vscode-server? Or just I need to use tmux or other solution?
In my organization, I have been using pywinauto to automate some UI procedures that could not be done using the sole command line interface.
In an effort to move away from windows, I am evaluating the effort to port the UI automation script to a Linux environment (our tool has a Linux version, including a similar GUI).
I have had a look at the python-xlib project. But I have the feeling that it is more a framework to develop native X11 applications rather than perform tests on an existing application (I could not find anything like find_window etc...).
Do you have any advice for an X11 framework to automate UI procedures?
Based on several inputs, I finally came up with the following suggestions:
use pywinauto which has some beta level of Linux support (this support is based on pyatspi2).
use directly pyatspi2 to interact with the widgets if they are exposed. To browse through the exposed widgets of the application you want to automate, you can use accerciser.
finally, many framework exist to use only click + keys + mouse locations and are based on image comparison. There are many around, I have not yet tested any of them.
Finally, since my script is meant to run in a docker environment in CI, I installed Xvfb to run the automation in headless mode, without graphics HW.
We're about to start developing a modern app (LOB) for Windows 8. I've researched how to deploy it via powershell and what I need to do to enable sideloading, etc.
My question is about the administrative process of this. Is it possible to do this remotely? If we have, say 15 devices that this app will be used on, do we need to go to each one and run the powershell script to update it?
It doesn't seem like the add-appxpackage command has any parameters to execute against a remote machine, though I might be missing something.
I've seen a few references to using System Center to do this? Is that my only option?
I have a long running task (many hours) that is started via a web page on an intranet interface. This is an ASP.Net 3.5 project. Of course, I could extend the script timeout and let the page run for several hours, but I don't think this is a clean solution. I read somewhere that long running tasks should not be children of a Web Application Pool, since it could be reset by IIS at any time. Searching for a solution, I read a bit about Quartz.Net, but most examples are talking about recurring jobs. I was wondering if it were also appropriate for tasks that should run only once when a user asks for it. Or is there another better solution?
Also, if Quartz.Net is a good way to go, should it run as a Windows Service, or should it be spawned by the ASP.Net web site using Global.asax?
Quartz.net works just fine for this scenario. You schedule a one time job on Quartz.net and let it run for as long as it needs to. At work this is exactly how we run many of our jobs.
You should set up Quartz.Net as a windows service though. IIS recycles web apps and if you run Quartz.net within your web app it will get recycled along with you web app by IIS.
I'm using TeamCity for my CI builds, and I'd like to set up a second build for running automated UI tests on Windows XP and Windows 7 virtual machines.
I imagine the build working as follows:
Compile, run unit tests, etc.
Prepare MSI using WiX
Copy MSI to target test machines
Remotely execute MSI's
Copy test harness code to remote machine
Run tests
Build finishes
The automated UI tests are written using NUnit and would need to be run directly on the test virtual machine (they can't run remotely). It's important that if the tests fail, it appears in the TeamCity build log and the build fails. I'd rather not install VS or the TeamCity build agents on either of the test virtual machines.
It seems that most of this should be possible using psexec.exe. Are there any alternative (preferably open source) tools that I should look at?
takes a deep breath
We were looking into something to help us out with our automated UI tests. We use ranorex to test the UI and TeamCity/Msbuild to execute the tests.
We never found any tools to help us out (I’m constantly keeping an eye out for some so will monitor this thread) but here is what we did instead.
The CI server copies the setup files and test scripts to the Testing Host Server.
The CI server then launches a custom app on the Testing Host Server providing the name of the VM to launch.
The Test Host Server then launches the VM software, using Virtual PC.exe -singlepc -pc vhdname.vhd -launch , and waits for it to shutdown (after it’s run its tests).
The VM grabs the setup files and scripts from the network location and executes.
After the tests are run it then returns the results to a networked location and shuts itself down.
Control is returned to the custom app.
Control is returned to the CI server which determines from the results if it has passed or failed (and updates the UI so developers are made aware of the result).
Results are collection as artifacts in TeamCity and tagged in Svn.
I think that's everything. Its convoluted, however, it works. Hope someone of that helps you.
Jeff Brown of the Gallio team has been talking about a tool called Archimedes that he's planning to write to support this kind of requirement. It sounds promising, but I don't think there has been much progress on it so far.
In the mean time though, there is something in the Gallio project called VM Tool that may do what you want. It provides commands to stop, start and snapshot virtual machines, and more importantly, to copy files back and forth and execute commands.
I presume you have also considered Powershell Remoting?