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Windows is a family of client, server, and mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft. Use this tag only if your question relates to using Windows APIs or Windows-specific behavior. Questions relating to using or troubleshooting Windows are off-topic.

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How to running ServerAgent on Windows?

Running the startAgent.bat command for ServerAgent on Windows resulted in an error:
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Server gets incredibly slow when running Selenium

I'm attempting to run Selenium (Chrome) test on 2 servers, each running Windows Server 2019 Standard (with GUI). The first server (the one with the worst specs) has the following specs: It runs ...
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Testing Windows Updates

Anyone who has worked with Windows knows that every so often Microsoft has a tendency to release updates that have the potential of breaking things in production env. hence why testing is necessary. ...
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How to automate system tests for a Windows file-processing system?

I'm trying to identify the best approach to begin automating the testing of an existing software system, so that we can refactor as needed with more confidence. We have some automated unit testing, ...
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Testing Windows applications with RIDE Robot Framework and Appium?

I have Robot Framework and the RIDE IDE installed. I have tried the Selenium library with RIDE, and works for testing web interfaces. I now want to test Windows Applications. Is it possible to test ...
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How do I automate the setting of Cypress environment variables on a windows machine via a text file?

On Unix and Mac machines, environmental variables can be read from .env files which have 'export' commands in them. For example: export USER_ENV=test export CLIENT=company In windows, there's no ...
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API to export cert

Is there any windows api available to export my cert MMC.exe, which exports the .cer files from their certificate store? I'm looking for the API which is compatible with software testing such as ...
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How can it be verified that all automatic updates for the host operating system are blocked?

Our application needs to run in a locked-down operating system. Due to quality and regulatory concerns, all updates shall be prevented or blocked. For example, we go through a checklist of Windows ...
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Can not choose button with the same name (Windows)

The problem I have two buttons with the same name in Windows program. So I do: "self.driver.find_element_by_name("button name").click()" - it selects the first one, but I need the second one. I ...
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Our company's website is IPv6 ready. What all testing I should perform?

Our company's website is mostly static. For Example we have: Home Page About Us Partners Career Join Us Join Us - we collect the data and call back potential leads. This website is said to be ...
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Selenium test fail when browser is minimized on windows server 2016

I do have this application that I wrote in selenium (java). When I deploy the test to my (windows 2008) remote server, it works fine. When I say fine, I can run the test and minimize the browser, even ...
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GitHub Desktop:Authentication failed.You may not have permission to access the repository [closed]

Team, My github desktop was working correctly. I am able to perform all the operations like Commit, Pull, Push. Today I am trying to push my code, observe below error : Authentication failed. You ...
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Run Selenium Automation on Microsoft Tablet chrome browser (real device)

As a part of the Automation Test, I have to set up my test framework to run tests on Microsoft Tablet(real device), I am not sure how to connect my framework with the tablet device. please suggest ...
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Record UI elements for TestFX

There is an existing JavaFX based application, which I should write automated tests for. I just started to use TestFX(version 4.0.13-alpha) and looking for advice, how to record and identify UI ...
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How to execute 'bat' as a local user in Jenkins - Pipeline

I have to create a Pipeline from the Jenkins 'master' which execute a batch as a specific user on a slave machine. In the following example: The slave machine is identified as 'my_node'. Jenkins '...
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UI testing tools for Win32 app written in C?

I have a game written in C, and I would like to write UI tests for it. Are there any suitable frameworks for testing UI's written in C? Both the game logic and the UI are written in C.
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Automated testing for Windows desktop

I am looking for a free tool to create automated test scripts for a Java-Swing application. I found Sikuli, but it wasn't updated years ago and seems to be an unstable solution. Winium looks obsolete ...
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How to create a Selenium IE Node that starts on boot?

I've been hitting my head against the wall with this one for a while now. On Linux Chrome and Firefox selenium nodes are fairly easy to setup and start automatically at boot time using docker or even ...
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How to switch to window with unknown id

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver(); String Parentwindow=driver.getWindowHandle(); Set <String>allWindows=...
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Selenium scripts will run successfully on different versions of windows OS?

I have some selenium scripts for my project. I have developed and tested on windows 7 OS.But I would like to know whether these same scripts will run successfully on different versions of windows OS ...
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How to disable user from closing the browser until Test Execution is complete ? using Selenium Webdriver & Chrome

User should not be able to close the browser using following methods. 1)Clicking X button of browser window 2)Using Alt+F4 3)Right-Click on Taskbar Icon + Close Window Edit : We require this ...
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Test automation script with ruby, watir-webdriver to run in Safari browser in Windows?

I found in different places that, automation with safari can be done in MAC OS as safari is also an Apple product. But, we can download and install safari browser in windows and test there manually. ...
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What tools are available to test console applications (I/O) on Windows?

We have several exes that interact with one another and would like to use something akin to "Selenium for Console Apps". What's available in C# land?
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What are "-windows uiautomation" selectors?

In the WinappDriver for Appium, I have the following method on WindowsElement: FindElementsByWindowsUIAutomation() I have searched for documentation on what this selector is and can do, but I hardly ...
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Not able to install maven on windows [closed]

Getting error while trying to install maven on windows. What I have tried is, I have set the Environment variables as follows: System variable:: MAVEN_HOME :: C:\Users\hari\Downloads\apache-maven-3....
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How to setup a testing system for different platforms and different baselines

I need to setup a testing system for my company. Currently we are doing the following: Build all baselines (latest, stable, customised1, customised2), just the binaries Test those binaries on two ...
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ERROR at the time of capybara installation

I am trying to setup environment for Web Testing using Capybara & Cucumber. I am hitting command "gem install capybara" to install but getting an error on the terminal is: ERROR: Could not find a ...
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Windows: Testlink Installation (logs/upload_area problem)

Hey, I got a problem with installation of Testlink. After Launching XAMPP, I got that: Checking if /var/testlink/logs/ directory exists Failed! Checking if /var/testlink/upload_area/ directory ...
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How to get iOS App crash logs from Windows machine [closed]

I am working as a manual tester from past 2 years(mostly worked on web applications) in one of the software testing company and now I have just started functional testing on mobile devices. My App on ...
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Appium: Cannot use Inspector to record GUI steps of Android app on Windows 7

I'm trying to use Appium inspector for recording manual GUI steps. But, I'm not even getting the option like record or anything else when I start inspector. Note: I'm capable of inspecting the ...
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Tool to track GDI Handle Leaks [closed]

An application has GDI Leaks, which I detected with NirSoft GDIView. Now that I know there is a GDI Handle leak, I need a more professional tool with the following properties: works on Windows 7 and ...
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How can I test a cache feature in a windows desktop?

How can I test a Windows desktop app that has an option to use cache while sending database information? Any ideas
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What is the best approach to test the windows services?

I want to write the automation suite for windows services. Some of these services updates the data in database. So my test cases would be to check the current state of the DB, run the windows service ...
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Jenkins Selenium Test on Windows 2012 R2 with Chrome driver

we are testing our projects with selenium. Using chrome browser with chromedriver (v2.9.248315). Now we are setting up a CI infrastructure and we want to run our selenium tests automated. We are ...
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Coded UI doesn't work in windows 10 and Visual studio 2015

When I try to record and play a window app like calculator it does not record while it works for a web site and browsers. My windows version is 10 and Visual Studio version is 15. It says you ...
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What is Guerilla testing?

What exactly does Guerilla Testing cover? What can be done in Guerilla Testing? Why is Guerilla Testing used? Is Guerilla Testing especially for UX Design?
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How can I simulate a defect drive in Windows?

(First question here ...) I'm a software engineer, and in my team I'm also in charge of checking all logged errors that our servers or "fat clients" produce. When I see something new, I'm meant to ...
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Configuring Windows Application in RFT

I Configured a windows application using Application Configuration Tool. Then I did the recording and when I play back the Application is opening fine but the script after that is not running. When I ...
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C++ app automation on multiple platforms

Need to automate C++ application testing on Web, Mobile (iOS, Android) and Desktop (Windows, OSX and maybe Linux). Searching for open source tools only and automated tests will be written using Java. ...
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Detect USB bus failure on Win CE device from a separate PC

I am testing a device running Win CE that is having issues with the USB bus failing intermittently. Manually, it takes me hours to reproduce the bug so I'm trying to automate this process. So how do I ...
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Searching for the most comfortable and cost efficient tool to implement Test Automation for Multiple Environments (Desktop, WEB and Mobile)

Planning to automate testing for Multiple Environments (Desktop, WEB and Mobile). Searching for the most comfortable and cost efficient tool to use. Found some tools: Ranorex, eggPlant, TestComplete ...
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Continuous integration testing for Windows desktop application

I'm looking for ways to implement continuous integration testing for Windows desktop application we're developing. Basically, we need the following: After new build finishes start VM Deploy new build ...
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Windows Phone 8.1 metro JS app testing

I started work as junior QA and after 2 months of manual testing my boss told me to learn about automation. The problem is that I should test app which has been written in JavaScript for Windows ...
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How do I make sure I test all commonly used applications alongside my application?

I have a Windows application that works on XP, Vista, Win7, Win8, Win 8.1, etc ... It's a very complicated program that can have computer slowdowns and compatibility issues with other commonly used ...
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Performance Testing tool for win & web applications

My team is looking for a performance testing tool that can work on both Win&Web application. Our application contains an SAP 3D Viewer inside. We are considering Borland Silk Perfomer & HP ...
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RFT 8.6 : Failed to enable Firefox31.4 ESR and IE11 browser with JRE 1.7 on Windows 7 Professional SP1 ( 64bit)

I am trying to configure RFT 8.6 with the installed browsers but getting errors while doing it, below are the configurations details of my setup followed up with the error I am facing... RFT 8.6 on ...
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Windows Desktop Test Lab

My firm develops a secondary product which is based on Win32 desktop application. That application has to be tested on multiple configuration (Windows version, service pack, installed flash version ...
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What are some good open source UI Testing tools for testing Windows GUI?

I need a list of some good tools which are open source and meant for automating the UI testing of Windows GUI. Any help will certainly be appreciated.
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Windows, Google Chrome - Renaming multiple files with same name

As part of an automation process using Python Selenium, I'm downloading a number of files with the same name, and each one gets automatically renamed with the name followed by a number within brackets....
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Virtualbox can fully run any OS?

I want to use Virtualbox to run Windows in Ubuntu. Can it really run every OS with no problems or restrictions if my PC respects the requirements? And can I run it in full screen?
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