Suitable Use Case for Jenkins - Windows Deployment and integration Testing of Commerical Applications ?

[michael...@ul.ie]

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?

[mobcdi]

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

[Mark Waite]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:44 AM, mobcdi <michael...@ul.ie> wrote:

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

I'm not aware of a plugin to perform that type of test, but there are several different test automation tools available which can be invoked from a Jenkins job and which can attempt end user clicks on menus.  I'm not sure any of them are worth the effort to configure and maintain for your use case, but they are available.

Refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GUI_testing_tools for a good listing of tools for GUI testing.

Mark Waite

 

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?

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Thanks!

Mark Waite

[mobcdi]

Thanks to all who replied, looks like it is possible with a bit of work. For completeness looking at test complete by smart bear was also suggested in case others are following the discussion

http://smartbear.com/product/testcomplete/overview/