Headless GUI testing on Windows

[Jeff MAURY]

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

[Fred G]

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

[Jason Swager]

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10177708/jenkins-on-windows-and-gui-tests-without-rdc