https://github.com/dblock/remoteinstall

Pragmatic VMWare-based tool for automating software testing, starting with software installation.
https://github.com/dblock/remoteinstall

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Pragmatic VMWare-based tool for automating software testing, starting with software installation.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dblock/remoteinstall
• Owner: dblock
• License: epl-1.0
• Created: 2013-03-30T18:04:37.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-04-12T15:12:04.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-28T21:05:44.508Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C#
• Size: 1.2 MB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
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RemoteInstall is a VMWare-based tool to automate software testing, starting with software installation. It's a pragmatic approach to system and integration-testing starting with the installer process itself through the final installed product and product integration.

* [Screeshots](Screenshots/README.md)

* [Introducing Remote Install](http://www.slideshare.net/dblockdotorg/introducing-remote-install-framework)

* [Need Help? Create a New Issue](https://github.com/dblock/remoteinstall/issues)

* [Old Project on CodePlex](http://remoteinstall.codeplex.com/)

### Features

* Designed for continuous integration with CruiseControl and CruiseControl.NET.

* Supports VMWare Workstation, Player, Server and Virtual Infrastructure (ESX, etc.) with VMWare VIX 1.7.0+.

* Supports running multiple installers on multiple virtual machines with multiple snapshots.

* Command line, configuration file driven execution.

* XML and HTML logging with pretty xsl-tranformed output including custom merged results.

* Capable of executing user-defined command-line, virtual machine and virtual machine snapshot tasks.

* Capable of combining results from multiple runs and user-defined tasks.

* Automatically collects installation logs clickable in the results summary.

* Copies user-defined files and folders from/to the virtual machine.

* Supports horizontal scaling with parallel execution against multiple Virtual Machine hosts.

* Itegrates and remotes unit tests from unit test frameworks, including NUnit and JUnit.

* Supports some distributed test scenarios with multiple virtual machines and snapshots.

### Using RemoteInstall

* Download and Install [VMWare VIX API](http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/).

* Download and Extract [RemoteInstall 1.3](http://code.dblock.org/downloads/remoteinstall/RemoteInstall.1.3.zip). 

* Open RemoteInstaller.chm and check out *Getting Started*.

License and Copyright

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Copyright (c) Application Security Inc. and Contributors.

This project is licensed under the [Eclipse Public License](LICENSE).