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.
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Question:
How can I emulate pressing CTRL+ALT+PAUSE in my Linux VM using AutoKey?
I tried a script that has
keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+<alt>+<pause>")
in it. But it does not work.
Background:
I'm using Windows 10 and RDP to log into a Fedora Linux. Switching 100 times a day.
The RDP connection runs in Windows all the time.
If the RDP window is not in the background but active, I can press CTRL+ALT+PAUSE to go into the VM (Fullscreen). If I am inside the VM I can press CTRL+ALT+PAUSE to go back to Windows.
So far so good. I want only one button. Preferably PAUSE. Windows part is ready already with following script
Pause::
If !WinExist("RDP Tool Name")
MsgBox No Window found
WinShow, RDP Tool Name
WinActivate, RDP Tool Name
Send ^!{CtrlBreak}
Return
Is the Linux part maybe not possible because the key combination is cached somewhere before my Linux system can even notice it? Any ideas?
I solved it without any other new script. I just had to edit the RDP settings: Keyboard -> Use Windows-Hotkeys -> On this Computer
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
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.
I'm executing selenium tests with testng, that are started on a remote system with Selenium RC via hudson (with ssh connection). The remote system is windows xp with MKS Toolkit installed, hence ssh. Tests are NOT executed as a windows service.
I've tried using both captureScreenshot and captureEntirePageScreenshot methods. The first one always produces a black image. The second one creates the correct screen shot but it only works on Firefox and our tests usually pass on Firefox and fail in other browsers, so it is crucial to capture screen shots for the other browsers (mainly IE and Safari). The tests are ran in parallel, with many browser windows open at the same time. I'm not certain if this is what's causing the problem. Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Unfortunately screenshots in Selenium have been problematic from the start in browsers that are not Firefox. This is something that we Selenium Developers have been working on for a while to correct.
The latest work has been updating Snapsie to work in IE. There is a blog post at http://blog.codecentric.de/en/2010/02/remote-screenshots-mit-selenium-und-dem-robot-framework/ that explains what has happened.
I have noticed that if the screen isn't active, i.e. the screensaver has kicked in, it can produce black screenshots.
Edit:
I just had a thought. You can always run Castro to video record your tests and then watch it play back. This is something SauceLabs use to run Selenium in the cloud.
Write a method for this and call that whereever you need to take the screenshot. Use the java.awt package which has been used in selenium. For example, check this site
After setting Windows Auto-Logon, and launching process not as Windows Service, I found how to solve the Remote Desktop with Black Screenshots problem of IEDriverServer.exe, by creating a batch file that disconnects RDP, instead of closing the RDP session with the regular X button:
%windir%\system32\tscon.exe %SESSIONNAME% /dest:console
See more details here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/24529629/658497
(Although, I would prefer there was a way to run it as the default action, when terminating RDP session with X Windows button).