{"id":369,"date":"2015-07-26T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T23:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-08-03T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:32:54","slug":"installaware-x3-first-with-automated-virtual-machine-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"InstallAware X3 First with Automated Virtual Machine Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New InstallAware X3, launching on Wednesday this week, is first to market with automated virtual machine unit testing, Windows 10 support, and a host of other improvements:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Automated Virtual Machine Testing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supports VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V.<br \/>\nConnect to local VMs or VMs hosted in the cloud on any supported server.<br \/>\nUse the Project Manager to browse your entire VM library and start testing on any VM snapshot.<br \/>\nRun as many simultaneous tests as your underlying hardware can handle.<br \/>\nUse default unit tests, or build your own unit testing scripts to check for particular services, files, registry keys, etc.<br \/>\nSee the status of ongoing tests, as well as succeeded\/failed VM tests at a single glance.<br \/>\nUse project settings for installation and uninstallation command lines; as well as guest operating system target folders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows 10, Visual Studio 2015 Eco-System Support:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First to support Windows 10.<br \/>\nMaximize application exposure by progammatically pinning your applications to the new Start Menu Live Tiles section, without going through the Windows Store.<br \/>\nUse the production runtimes for .NET 4.6, Visual C++ 14, and SQL Server 2014 with SP1.<br \/>\nEnjoy 50% size reductions on runtimes such as SQL Server 2014 &#8211; on top of Microsoft&#8217;s already compressed runtime sizes.<br \/>\nInstantly create setup projects from the Visual Studio 2015 IDE and build installer or App-V virtualized targets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Runtime Wizard:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distills InstallAware&#8217;s decades of experience building and optimizing application runtimes.<br \/>\nPoint-and-click to create new technology framework installers. The wizard guides you in making the right choices.<br \/>\nConsume new application runtimes from additional InstallAware IDE instances and an unlimited number of setups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Build Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use pre and post triggers.<br \/>\nTriggers fire upon compilation, compression, and MSI wrapping stages.<br \/>\nRun an unlimited number of applications and optionally abort the build should any of them fail.<\/p>\n<p>InstallAware X3 <strong>grows your software margins<\/strong>, <strong>maximizes your revenue<\/strong>, and <strong>delights your developers with its convenience and simplicity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy <strong>simplified agile builds<\/strong>, <strong>reduced bandwidth costs<\/strong>, and <strong>eliminated R&amp;D expenditures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grow your exposure<\/strong> and <strong>monetize your software<\/strong> with InstallAware X3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New InstallAware X3, launching on Wednesday this week, is first to market with automated virtual machine unit testing, Windows 10 support, and a host of other improvements: Automated Virtual Machine Testing: Supports VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Connect to local VMs or VMs hosted in the cloud on any supported server. Use the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=369\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;InstallAware X3 First with Automated Virtual Machine Testing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}