Seems the vm steps are covered by this plugin https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/vSphere+Cloud+Plugin but what I'm not clear is possible is how to test applications that need to emulate an end user clicking menus
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 5:04:29 PM UTC, mobcdi wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is the following use case suitable for Jenkins and if so are there any of > the many plugins you would recommend to help? > > In an enviroment with a large number of windows applications could Jenkins > be used for testing new versions of applications work well together and > also work with updates to the Windows client/desktop OS ? > > The applications would be for the most part manually created custom > packages of commerical applications (think MS Office, Adobe Suites that > kind of thing) and the aim would be to automate the testing of both changes > to the underlying OS either from a config change or a patch as well as > updates/patches to the applications themselves? > > I would envisage a series of tests would include > > - starts correctly > - Can create a new file > - Can open and save an existing file > - Carry out application specify tests e.g in Adobe PhotoShop export > image as pdf > > I would expect the Windows test machines would be a vm based on a custom > template /image > > Is this dream a reality already or the stuff of nighmares? > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/29d25fd4-3006-452a-b913-28bf051d1d22%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
