Hi, after having multiple problems with the interaction of the Jenkins service and the Windows desktop, the best solution I found was the JNLP web start client which is called from a shortcut in the "Autostart" folder.
Hope that helps. Regards, Fred On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:26:35 AM UTC+1, Jeff MAURY wrote: > > I'm using Jenkins to build an Eclipse based product and I have SWTBot > based tests that performs validation of the UI layer. > As Jenkins is running on a Ubuntu server (headless), I was able to run the > UI tests on Linux thanks to the Xvfb Jenkins plugin. > But as main target platform is Windows, I am thinking about running the UI > tests on that platform (on the same machine inside a VM) > As Jenkins will be running as a service on Windows, it is not possible to > run UI tests for Windows. > Do you a kind of Xvfb equivalent for Windows ? > Or maybe if I run my virtual machine together with Xvfb and allowing > Jenkins service to interact with the desktop, do you think that might work ? > > Thanks > Jeff > > >
