WDIO to automate any desktop applications - webdriver-io

Has anyone used WDIO to automate any desktop applications? We have a project that require some browser and some interaction with mainframe windows, I was wondering if we are able to swtich to appium in our tests to accomplish this.. thanks

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Can I create a test server for testing team with Selenium?

I made a Selenium code by Java to test a certain web-application that our company developed.
Now, developers fix the application quite often and every time they update or fix, testers should test this new version of webapp to assert all functions working fine before application release.
Let's suppose that there are 100 testers who do not know how to run Selenium code or install Java.
I decide to create a testing server so that testers can access this server and run test. They also can see all test histories and details so far as well.
Is it possible and realistic to develop a system that runs like server and client? If yes, Can Jenkins do that? Other solutions are welcome!
Thank you in advance and happy new year!
Jenkins is one of the tools, you able to use for this, since it provides a simple way to delegate some tasks to already configured envs, nodes share them for multiple users and hide technical complexity. Also this would be aligned to your CI process, e.g. first - deploy the new code to test env, next - run test automation.
But the same also might be said for some other CI tools, so I suggest to pick some CI tool which your development already uses.
The architecture could be:
1 CI task for run tests -->
2 CI Node or docker image with java, selenium,
maven(gradle), it may be some headless Linux -->
3 Selenium cluster which able to launch multiple
selenium sessions (to cover your testers needs). It could
be some selenium cloud service, or configured
onpremise env. -->
4 Selenium grid hub (may be headless)-->
5 Selenium grid nodes... The final nodes env
should match your test requirements. It could
be Docker with linux (headless or not) or
Windows/MacOs.
Pick some tools and look for quick start guides/tutorials.
Start from simple implementation and improve it continuously.
I may say that for many cases Docker + Ubuntu + Headless Chrome is fine, lightweight and rapid.
Some references (examples the tools I've used):
Jenkins + Selenium + Maven https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium-maven-jenkins-integration/
Selenoid (selenium grid implementation based on docker containers) https://github.com/aerokube/selenoid
Report Portal (just reporting tool) - something more than the default testng report provides. https://reportportal.io/
This is very shortly. The same might be done with a lot of other tools.

Possible to use cypress for e2e with embedded jxbrowser?

I've recently found and fallen in love with Cypress for e2e testing, much more so than Selenium, but there's a catch: our web app will actually be within jxbrowser, inside a java app. Whatever e2e framework we choose has to be able to run all the tests within jxbrowser inside of this embedded application (hence why we originally looked at selenium, because of the remote driver)
Is it possible to get this working? We absolutely need the embedded jxbrowser tests (Cots integration, can't get around it), and I'd hate to have to fall back to selenium.

Is it possible to write automation tests for nwjs app?

I am currently working on node-webkit based desktop app. I was searching for a way to do automation testing for this . But most of the automation tools required a server to start up but in my case i have on but it runs in the chromium that comes by default. Is there a way to automate UI acceptance test for nwjs apps.
Take a look at the NW.js Wiki under How to run node webkit's test cases
You will need to setup the chrome driver in order to use selenium for example
Once you have those, check out Yaniv kessler's blog post on how to Automate NW.js UI testing using mocha.

Best Practice for running e2e tests of single page app using protractor/Selenium Remotely

I'm trying to understand what is the best practice for running remote e2e tests written in Selenium - for running different suites on different environments. the testing code is attached to git and basically we use TeamCity, but it doesn't have ti be used.
any suggestions would be great
thanks!
You can have a look at my protractor example project on GitHub. I'm not sure my examples would be considered "best practices" but it's how I currently do things :)
The examples cover:
page objects
Running on TravisCI
Running tests on Sauce Labs and Browserstack
Running multiple browsers at once

Selenium nightly regression

I'm currently developing a new set of regression tests for an interface using Selenium. I was wondering if it's possible to do a type of batch that runs during the night and which could launch a set of tests (and, i don't know... maybe configure some stuff at the same time). Does anyone know how to do this, or if there is a tool for this that integrates with Selenium?
Thanks!
You could use Jenkins/Hudson, that is a continuous integration tool. It has addons as well for Selenium.
More info here.
Jenkins, Hudson, CruiseControl or TeamCity will all be very easy to set up with Selenium.