Thank you so much for that information..
I am already reading into the wiki links you attached.
I wonder though if there is a better product to run automation with Watir
in a windows enviroment than Jenkins?
or just better to go with Linux and run headless?
On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:18:45 AM UTC-7, bill...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rautomation-0.7.2/lib/rautomation/window.rb:226:in
>
>
> > `rescue in wait_until_present': Window with locator {:index=>0,
> > :hwnd=>262394} doesn't exist or is not visible!
> > (RAutomation::UnknownWindowException)
>
> Since the exception seems to be in a part of the test where you're
> using RAutomation to work with the GUI, it's probably an issue with
> the script not being able to access the interactive desktop.
>
> This is a common problem with remotely launching GUI tests on Windows.
> There are a few types of solutions, though.
>
> How I worked around this was to:
>
> - Leave a Windows user logged in at all times (with the desktop
> showing, not locked)
>
> - Make sure the Jenkins agent is running as that user, using the Java
> command shown here:
>
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds#Distributedbuilds-Launchslaveagentheadlessly
>
>
> Then all Jenkins jobs should run in the context of that logged-in user
> and your Ruby process will have full access to the desktop. GUI tests
> should work just as when you run them manually while logged in to
> Windows yourself.
>
>
> Other possible fixes would depend on how you are launching the Jenkins
> agent and what user it's running as. Note that if you're running the
> Jenkins agent as a Windows service, the docs they mention that it
> won't have GUI access by default:
>
>
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds#HavemasterlaunchslaveagentonWindows
>
>
> It might be possible to manually configure the service to run as a
> specific user and give it desktop access, though. I haven't tried
> that, but Windows supports certain tweaks to services' environments
> that might make it doable.
>
> Thanks
> Bill
>
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