Need info on Jenkins

[Nef Rey]

I'm new to Jenkins and would like some quick answers before I start digging.

1- I want to use Jenkins as a framework for testing our Windows Desktop applications (not web apps).  Can I do so?  I imagine I can.

2- I do not want to use Jenkins as a source versioning system.  I just want to use it to drop the completed app (exe) and test using MTEST, NUnit or JUNit..   Can I do this?

Thanks,

NR

[Christoph Nenning]

> I'm new to Jenkins and would like some quick answers before I start digging.
>
> 1- I want to use Jenkins as a framework for testing our Windows
> Desktop applications (not web apps).  Can I do so?  I imagine I can.
>

Yes you can :)
Jenkins basically just copies files and runs scripts. So you can use it for all kinds of stuff.

> 2- I do not want to use Jenkins as a source versioning system.  I
> just want to use it to drop the completed app (exe) and test using
> MTEST, NUnit or JUNit..   Can I do this?
>

It is possible but not the common approach. I would place the exe files on a network share and let copy jenkins it from there.



Regards,
Christoph

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[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am 14.12.2016 um 08:58 schrieb Christoph Nenning:

> 1- I want to use Jenkins as a framework for testing our Windows
> Desktop applications (not web apps).  Can I do so?  I imagine I can.
>

Yes you can :)
Jenkins basically just copies files and runs scripts. So you can use it for all kinds of stuff.

How's the "desktop" part done, given that Jenkins runs on a remote server? On Linux, one can use the Xvfb plugin to provide a virtual X server, but what about Windows?

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Jenkins runs on Windows just fine. Just put a slave on the Windows machine.

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am 14.12.2016 um 12:16 schrieb thok...@gmail.com:

Jenkins runs on Windows just fine. Just put a slave on the Windows machine.

I know. I was referring to the "testing windows desktop applications" part. Given that the slave still runs on some remote machine, there is no desktop to run a desktop application on.

[Slide]

You have to make sure and run the agent as a desktop app. Current versions of Windows don't allow services to interact with the desktop anymore. This means you probably can't run Jenkins on the box and only use master for building, this would have a similar issue (unless you started Jenkins from the command line with a logged in account).

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