Running tests on Windows via Jenkins ?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/23/14, 12:42 PM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

>How important is it to us to run unit tests on Windows ?

If it weren't for the fact that my Parallels VM no longer runs in less
than glacial time on my primary laptop, I'd run them pretty routinely.

>I have been thinking at some point we would want a Windows VM
>somewhere that runs as a Jenkins slave, but that's probably a bunch of
>work.

I don't know that we even can unless we host on a physical machine. Unless
Intel chips have really advanced, you can't run a VM under a VM, can you?

>For now, I have been running the java-integration-tests on Windows,
>but that's mostly it.

For Windows, the main thing is testing use of the file paths for
configuration, so you'd really test by copying configuration to C:\Program
Files and making sure setting idp.home to that works. So that's eventually
what we'll want to build as an integration test.

-- Scott