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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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.
