Re: Swing UI tests on Linux Slaves

2014-09-12 Thread Laurent Malvert
It's indeed the 2 options I came across. Great to know there are plugins to ease the setup. Thanks a lot all, I'll look into it. On Sep 12, 2014 11:56 PM, "Mark Waite" wrote: > I used the Xvnc plugin with very good results on a Debian configuration a > year or two ago and was very pleased with i

Re: Swing UI tests on Linux Slaves

2014-09-12 Thread Mark Waite
I used the Xvnc plugin with very good results on a Debian configuration a year or two ago and was very pleased with its results. It started and stopped VNC sessions as needed for each individual job and reduced the management overhead significantly for me. Mark Waite On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:34

Re: Swing UI tests on Linux Slaves

2014-09-12 Thread طلال Anthony-Peter-Thomas رابعة
Same here, Xvfb works great. I believe there's a plugin to instantiate a new instance of Xvfb with each build but I haven't used it. I run a single instance of Xvfb on each slave because our tests can't be run in parallel. > On Sep 12, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Chanda Unmack wrote: > > > >> On Fri

Re: Swing UI tests on Linux Slaves

2014-09-12 Thread Chanda Unmack
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Laurent Malvert wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there are any recommendations or best practices on a > typical setup for running jobs on a Linux slave, when said job contains > some unit tests that require access to the GUI? > > I'd be in favor or keeping t