GUI with jenkins not opening on the slave machine

[Rohan Majumdar]

I have a jenkins slave to run the robotframework test cases. I am able to get the console prints on the master but no browser ever opens up or anything on the slave.

Ofcourse the test case works pretty fine.

But I am just curious.

How to have the automated test cases play on the slave machine.

There was post which says about running jenkins from the command line.

But my confusion regarding that is -> Jenkins is configured on the master then how can we affect

the slave by running jenkins on the console on the master please elaborate.

There is no jenkins configuration other than the Java service on the slave machine. 

[Victor Martinez]

Hi,

 Are you using Windows slaves? If so, have you configured your windows in order to support interactive sessions? IMO, I do prefer to use JNLP connections rather than Windows service connections since it does allow interactive sessions by default. Can you try to run your slave as jnlp connection?

Cheers

[Rohan Majumdar]

I have installed the java service on the slave, is that not JNLP.

Can you please elaborate what do you mean by JNLP

[Rohan Majumdar]

And yeah I am using windows Vista as a slave.

Windows 7 is the master

[Victor Martinez]

See the below wiki:

- https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Step+by+step+guide+to+set+up+master+and+slave+machines

[Rohan Majumdar]

Yeah, I have followed the same tutorial while making the slave.
Once again testing works fine but the GUI automation is not visible.
I think it happens in the backfround.

[Victor Martinez]

Let me ask you if you are launching your slave connection via windows services (point 6) or via JNLP connections (point 5)

JNLP shouldn't run in the background AFAIK. Have you tried to run those commands manually in the same windows box? Different behaviour?

Cheers

[Rohan Majumdar]

Okay what I observed was rather weird, when the agent is not running as a service the automation is visible,

I discovered this by accident.

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[Rohan Majumdar]

I have observed something weird, that the automation is visible when the agent is not running as a windows service.

The automation visibility worked that way.

Discovered this by accident.

[Victor Martinez]

That's actually the expected behaviour since Windows services uses Display 0 

- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683502(v=vs.85).aspx

Just seen there was already some answers about this feature in the stackoverflow

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18906753/jenkins-windows-slave-service-does-not-interact-with-desktop

[Rohan Majumdar]

So, i guess there is no way to run the service as is and be able to see the automation.

Anyways my problem is solved.

I am using the JNLP agent manually.

Not as a service.

Regards and thanks

Abbas

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[Victor Martinez]

AFAIK, you can as long as you enable the interactive services: http://stackoverflow.com/a/19947566 might help 

Cheers

[Rohan Majumdar]

Excellent point  , thanks for the answer...

Open source is even faster and more accurate than proprietary.

Cheers

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