Winappdriver: Send command prompt command

[jsa34]

Hello all,

I am trying to send a command to clean up some running .exe processes that might be "residual" from previous test cases that didn't clear properly, so needed to run a cleanup TASKKILL cmd, but not sure how I can execute this using WAD (if it makes any difference, using Appium and Java bindings).

Any ideas?

Many thanks

[anunay1]

no, you cannot kill a another process with WAD, you can kill using:
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") > -1)
rt.exec("taskkill " +....);
else
rt.exec("kill -9 " +....);

[jsa34]

But this will execute on the VM where the test is being executed rather than the node?

I need to send the command to the remote node that WAD is on and commands are being sent to...

[moonkey124]

For this to work you need to create a new session with cmd.exe. I wrote myself this helper function below:

protected static void RunDosCommand(string command)
{
    DesiredCapabilities appCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
    appCapabilities.SetCapability("app", "cmd.exe");
    appCapabilities.SetCapability("appArguments", $"/c {command}");
    appCapabilities.SetCapability("deviceName", "WindowsPC");
    try
    {
        // this will always fail, but launches our cmd.exe
        var unused = new WindowsDriver<WindowsElement>(new Uri("http://172.20.1.93:4723/wd/hub"), appCapabilities);
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        // ignored
    }
}

and now simply call it: RunDosCommand(@"taskkill /F /IM application.exe");