I Have a VPS that is scheduled to restart Several times.
On the start-up, i need to the browser to automatically run some simple tasks, like load a php script, clear history, change some simple random parameters.
I tried to accomplished this with auto clicker and macro creator programs like perfect automation , mouse recorder and a few others, and while it works fine, when I'm connected to the VPS, it does not work at all when i restart the machine, which is the objective of this problem: to full automate initial browser tasks on the machine start-up, without login.
Is there any fullproof software for this kind of stuff ? the time I'm wasting to try to accomplish this is becoming ridiculous
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I am writing scripts which will install UFT and do all the configuration setting require to run the UFT scripts. My UFT scripts are browsing some urls etc.
I want to know if I do it in Virutal Machines then is it possible to run the UFT scripts on those servers as they won't have mouse and keyboards attached.
Want to run automatically on machines without logging into the machines.
In case if you are simulating mouse & keyboard actions (like hitting ENTER, Clicking on particular coordinate etc) in your script, It will work fine even if mouse and keyboards are not connected to a computer. Basically you are simulating mouse and keyboard clicks w/o actually using them.I assume you have verified your scripts in your local machine. If it works fine, Then it will also work fine in your VM.(assuming your VM has enough permissions/all the prerequisites installed/configured etc).
It works. I use it every day. You can even use analog recording in the VM with a Remote Connection to the VM with no problems as well.
Selenium GRID2 is setup with a hub and three nodes (VMs Windows). All the config files are set and I start the services with a couple batch files executed on each machine. Once everything is started up it works great. When the remotely connected user who executed the batch files actually logs out of the machine the tests fail to connect to the browsers anymore.
I could leave the user account logged on after starting everything and just stay logged on. However, I would much rather find a way to get the services to startup and stay active without any user logged on the systems. Is there a way to force all the services to stay active after all users logout of the machine. Also need the full browser to function as there are screenshots as well. Could someone point me in the right direction or tell me how to get that to work or if it's possible?
Setup a scheduled task via Task Scheduler to execute the batch files to start the node on each machine. You can set a trigger to execute the batch file on system startup, or at a specific time.
Also, when creating the task, select the option "Run whether user is logged on or not"
I also add a task to restart the node machines (every night) to keep it clean of stale browser windows.Since the node batch files runs at startup, you do not need to login to the hub/node machine to start it manually.
We are new to test automation, and finally we finally automated our setup (black box testing). A brief overview of our setup:
Each setup consists of 2 linux PCs and 1 windows PC - the PCs communicate to one another via an embedded board.
Before we used to manually run test cases from the linux machine - this would require both typing in the Linux machine and also some operations in the windows PC. Now instead we have written a C wrapper from which you can trigger any number of test cases and thanks to AutoIT the windows PC operations are now automated as well.
Now we have multiple such setups - I want to have a central test controller that,
Given a set of test cases (and the corresponding executable to be run on the embedded board) can distribute and trigger it in parallel across setups
During overnight tests it can keep track of which test cases have been executed and which ones are pending
Quarantine test cases
Continuous integration - we use CVS
etc etc
Basically a powerful test harness software running on a PC - this PC is connected to all the setups using a router.
Any suggestions from open source (free) projects for such a software, more than having all the features mentioned above, i want something that does most of it, I can code and add additional functionalities as need
I tried browsing online and seem to find some but they all seem to be for testing websites, not sure if it would suit my use case. Would really appreciate inputs in this regard.
Thanks
ok i am going to ignore most of the stuff that you described which looks like you have automated already, and correct me if i am wrong but i think you are looking for is controller for all these automated jobs.
I would say that Jenkins CI is the ideal solution for you.
In jenkins everything is controlled by a master machine, this machine then in turn controls slaves (being your other pcs or linux machines) via java. so this gives you overview of the system.
you can then create jobs and ristrict where they can run, these jos can pretty much do anything. Including taking parameters for what to run, you can also create matrix configuration jobs which allow for one setup to be run simlutansily on however many slaves you need.
You can set this process or timer, or trigger , build externaly or internaly or etc etc ...
Also I am pretty sure Jenkins has some dedicated plugins for working with CVS some of which are built into the OOTB setup.
Jenkins is the way to go here .
I have some scripts (AutoIt) browsing YouTube for list of trending videos etc. It involves no mouse clicks (just keystrokes). The script takes a long time to finish and I can't use my PC during this time (it needs the window activated to work on it).
Is there anything I can do about this? Can these scripts run from a server or some stuff like that?
I've run into a similar problem: got to run automation with AutoIt on a Windows Server and the whole thing had got to be headless. Using Remote Desktop simply didin't work because then I'd had to keep a client opened and maximized all the time.
Short solution: install a VNC server in the Windows Server, open a client from another computer, log in and close the client. As the AutoIt script was being started by a Jenkins job, before closing the client the Jenkins applet had to be started via web interface.
By the way, I've had this idea from this post: How to run remote headless GUI automation.
As Johannes said, AutoIt probably wouldn't be suitable (and likewise AutoHotkey), but you could check out the many GUI and web testing frameworks that exist for other languages. With some of those, you can run a "headless" browser (a program that navigates the web just like a browser, but has no visible window); or you can run a standard browser on a virtual display like a Xvfb X11 server. This would be easiest if the server (or wherever it's going to run) is running a Unix-like OS, but it may be possible with Windows too.
Selenium Webdriver seems to be a very popular choice for scripting and testing actual browsers. It's natively Java but has bindings for languages like Ruby. It can also hook into something called HtmlUnit, which is also Java; that's one of the more popular headless browsers. Another (a relative newcomer) is phantom.js, which is in Javascript but (again) has bindings for other languages.
As far as I know this will not work unless the user account is logged on. You could try to see if you could convert it to an exe and run this as a service, but even then I don't think this will work. Let me know if you found out!
You can either:
Hide your window (SetWindowState #SW_HIDE) or something like that...
and use ControlClicks (if the they are original controls!)
or
Hide your window and use SendControl
or
use SendKeepActive
or
use OLEObjects like ie.au3 for automation.
Good Luck
I have couple of machines on which I wish to schedule exceutions. I need to access these machines remotely for exceution. Whenever I start exceution from these machines and minimize the session my script fails. So just curious to know whether QTP scripts can be executed while keeping sessions minimized. If yes what changes needs to be made in script. Thanks.
When you minimize this window, the operating system switches the remote session to a GUI-less mode and does not display windows and controls. As a result, the tests are unable to interact with the tested application’s GUI as the GUI doesn’t actually exist in this case.
You need to change Registry keys on your computer (that is, the computer from which you connect to a remote QTP workstation). Here is a step-by-step description:
Close Remote Desktop sessions opened on your computer.
Click Start and select Run. In the Run dialog box, type regedit and press Enter. Registry Editor starts
Locate any of the following Registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\
(if you want to change the RDC settings for your user account)
-- or --
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\
(if you want to change the RDC settings for all accounts)
Create a new DWORD value in this key named RemoteDesktop_SuppressWhenMinimized. Specify 2 as the value data.
That’s all. Now minimizing the Remote Desktop Connection window on your computer will not affect the remote computer’s GUI and the GUI will still be available to your automated GUI tests.
This was taken from: http://blog.smartbear.com/post/10-10-11/testcomplete-tip-running-tests-in-minimized-remote-desktop-windows/
The problem you're facing is that if you minimize your display the remove machine knows that it doesn't have a display and ignores any questions about control locations and requests to move the mouse. In some cases QTP runs tests using device replay which means that the test will fail.
To work around this you need to have the remote machine think that it still has someone attached to it. One way is (obviously) to not minimize or close the remote desktop session. Another way is to use a remote access program that doesn't inform the remote machine when it's minimized a free example of such program is VNC, if I remember correctly you can even close the VNC session (not just minimize it) and the test will still run successfully.