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Question

Remote Assistance and Automated-Testing Together?

Dec 26, 2014 6:30AM PST

I'm fairly new in the IT world, so forgive me if I'm overlooking something common sense.
So, for work, I've been tasked with creating/setting up an automated testing system. We're using TFS and MTM, and have access to ATRT, however our test agents (or Systems Under Test) have none of these and are basically configured to factory defaults. We've spent a lot of time creating test cases in TFS/MTM, and I don't want to waste them, however I simply can't figure out how to run these tests without installing anything.
Due to the situation, we cannot install software nor can we connect to the internet (on the agents). I figured I could run the tests from another system connected via Remote Assistance through a local server.
First off, is it possible or am I just kidding myself?
Second off, do you know if Visual Studio code generator will recognize the Remote Assistance interface as a valid source, or will it just recognize it as "Client.Win7", or something of the like?

To answer questions I expect to come up:

Q: Why did you put this in the Win 7 forums?
A: I did that because most of the machines I will be using will have Win 7 on them, and Remote Assistance is pre-installed.

Q: Why don't you just set it up and try it?
A: Long story made short, it would require buying very expensive equipment or changing our inventory of the older systems (and we're already using all of what we have). There are specific settings on these computers that prevent us from just "trying it out". It has to be an all-or-nothing attempt.

Q: What's TFS, MTM, and ATRT?
A: TFS - Team Foundation Server
MTM - Microsoft Test Manager
ATRT - Specific testing software the company has thought about using. Made by Idtus.

Q: Why does it smell like sausage in here?
A: For whatever reason, people think cheap sausage is a good Christmas gift and I always get a lot of it.

Q: Who do you work for?
A: Santa.

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Answer
Odd.
Dec 26, 2014 6:36AM PST

As a developer we always can install what we want. I have run into shops that have Jurassic era IT rules and we usually see them die in a year or two since they would rather go extinct than change the rules.

Fast forward to today and you have BYOD which wrenches control even further from the dinosaur's tiny hands.

Have a happy new year, get bacon over sausage and let the dinosaurs fade into extinction again.
Bob

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Can you yodel?
Dec 26, 2014 6:44AM PST

Let's just say we have a very particular clientele and the computers MUST stay the way they are. It's not a shop, but a contractor, if that clears anything up.

It's not that I don't like sausage, it's just that I don't care too much for cheap, paper-wrapped, grease-soaked sausage from a brand that pumps out more than a million pounds a year of the stuff.

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It's that simple.
Dec 26, 2014 7:10AM PST

Your clientele are in the stone age so get your programmers together to create a system all built on PORTABLE APPS. Over the years I learned how to create those so there is no install but it just runs.

Sometimes these dinosaurs take longer to go extinct. In the meantime we keep our heads and let them go crazy and suffocate.
Bob