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Maybe I misunderstood what you're saying (and on re-reading I'm still not entirely sure). Are you saying you chose a tool that doesn't work on windows and those tests would never run because of the tool you chose? Or are you saying that automating the deployment of VMs based on machine templates for testing is not possible in windows (hence "those tests would never run"). Reading your parent comment re: automated provisioning and configuration of virtual machine images - windows has all this. You suggest that people learn linux better, but seem unwilling to do the same for windows.



No. I chose the tool because it did what I wanted it to. It was implied there are automated tools that, say, upon an SCM push with a given tag, can instantiate Windows VMs, deploy and test the app with no manual intervention and report any issues encountered. I never did that and I'm curious about how would you do it.

I imagine a combination of Buildbot and Microsoft's VM container could do it and be automated with a PowerShell script, but I'm not very sure how. Has anyone done something similar to this?




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