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Running tests headless

June 10th, 2008

Updated. Thanks to Arun for giving me a pointer to pstools.

This will be part of Marathon User Guide when it comes out. I am writing these snippets so that you can benefit from them now.

Now that you wrote a lot tests using marathon how do you run them? The problem with GUI testing is that your desktop is tied up for the duration of the tests. The monitor blinks like a tube-light with a starter problem with Windows popping up all over with crazy titles - ‘testStartAndStopRecordingWithSetupAndTearDown’ or ‘testDeleteFilesWithSomeFailures’. Even if you can live with this - all these popping up windows will be stealing your application’s focus (beside stealing yours) and some of your keystrokes and mouse clicks will go there. In the end you end up not knowing whether a test case failed because of you using the keyboard or a bug in the application under test.

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