XVNC - VNC Server and Hudson Plugin

UI Testing on a continuous integration server like hudson will require an Xvnc session in order for the server to know how to display the UI. Below,

is a link and a brief description of the Xvnc server (at&t research - site hosted by Cambridge University):

Xvnc: http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/vnc_docs/index.html

"VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures."

and a link to the hudson Xvnc plugin - which allows its integration to your CI:


 Hudson Xvnc Plugin: http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Xvnc+Plugin

"This plugin lets you run an Xvnc session during a build. This is handy if your build includes UI testing that needs a display available."

Your java code can be tested using Jemmy (check Jemmy article) and then properly run on your Hudson CI using the Xvnc plugin - at least in theory as I have not tried it yet, but know those who have :)


NOTE: another interesting site I found is an Xvnc implementation for Android - available on Google Play!
http://theqvd.com/support/documentation/xvnc-pro-xx11-server-with-vnc-backend

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