Automated installer testing on VM

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Automated installer testing on VM

Postby ulrichard » Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:16 am

This question is not exactly related to InstallAware, but it's probably something, InstallAware users have to care or think about.

I've done automatic testing of the installer on Virtual machines for a while now. With FinalBuilder I start up the virtual machine(varying operating systems), copy the installer over, and execute it with Sysinternals psexec. After it went through I examine some results and run some tests with the installed application.

While it works good for WindowsXP and before, it got problematic with Vista. I could do it with UAC turned off. Now it's also problematic with Windows7. I read somewhere that in order for psexec to work, it has to use a user account that not only is in the local administrator group but wholse name is "Administrator". For other reasons, that I can't remember right now, I have to use a domain user account. That leaves me with the option to use THE domain admin account for automated installer tests, which is not really an option.

Now, I'm interested in how other people perform automated installer tests?

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