Winappdriver: How to do parallel testing using WinAppdriver?

[testingsdk1]

Hi Team,

My problem statement :

1.Execute the test cases of two different window applications like Notepad , Alarm clock at the same time
in parallel way?
2.Execute the test case of two different window applications like Notepad , Alarm clock linearly i.e one
after another?

Note: I am currently using testng , java .

Please help.

Regards,
Ankush

[testingsdk1]

Any updates on the same?

[testingsdk1]

Hi Team,
Please help how can we do parallel testing and testing in headless mode using winAppDriver.

Regards,
Ankush

[khouzam]

Hi @testingsdk1,

Running tests in parallel with WinAppDriver is not something that is recommended. Unlike functional tests, UI tests rely on replicating user interactions through different input methods such as the mouse and keyboard. With the Windows architecture, there is one keyboard input, one mouse input. While there are multiple windows, only the one with focus will get the input from the keyboard. So if a test is running and getting keyboard input and another test tries to run in parallel and get the system focus, the input will now be routed to the second even though it might be sent from a different test. The same is true of mouse interactions. A test doing mouse operations can easily be interrupted and confused by another test trying to do mouse interactions at the same time.

Think of each test as a user sitting in front of the computer. If you have 2 tests running in parallel, you would have two people sitting at the same mouse and keyboard each trying to interact with their own application and fighting for the behavior they expect.

You might want to look at issue #515 which addresses this issue.

Thanks
~Gilles

[testingsdk1]

Hi khouzam,

Thank you. Can we do testing of window applications in headless mode?

Regards,
Ankush

[khouzam]

Hi @testingsdk1,

It really depends what you mean by headless mode. You should take a look at our FAQ for CI systems: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/wiki/Continuous-Integration-with-WinAppDriver

You do need to have an active session otherwise, Windows will not route the input to the application (when a session is locked or if running as a service).

[testingsdk1]

Hi khouzam,

I meant that can we do execution when the windows application is not in focus. Like it happens in the
case of selenium.

Regards,
Ankush

[yodurr]

Hi @testingsdk1, we don't have a headless mode. That's a browser construct that we don't have an equivalent for with native apps.

[naeemakram]

I suppose you should be able to make it work the way Selenium Grid works. Did you try?

[testingsdk1]

it works well with selenium grid. tried it on one system. I made one system
hub and same system node.

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I suppose you should be able to make it work the way Selenium Grid works.
Did you try?

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[testingsdk1]

parallel testing was only achieved when we run single instance of
application across different nodes or systems.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:46 PM ankush vashist [e-mail]
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it works well with selenium grid. tried it on one system. I made one
system hub and same system node.

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[naeemakram]

Cool, that means we can reduce overall test execution time using multiple machines. Although I guess it won't be possible to pass data from one test to another test.

[ianceicys]

Asked for this feature with Hyper-V integration years ago.
https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/132