On 05/15/2012 11:59 AM, Edo Beutler wrote:

Hi devs

Yesterday the hard disk of our local machine running Jenkins crashed. We decided to use that as a reason to move Jenkins to one of our servers. This should be easy to do, with exception of the functional tests (Selenium). Currently we are evaluating if it's worth it to install our own test environment or if we should use an SAAS solution. I tried to figure out how you solved this problem, but I couldn't find the details of how / where you run your functional tests during the continuous integration. So, do you run your functional tests for the different browsers (and browser versions) on you own servers or do you use a third party solution?

Thanks for a hint / inspiration Edo

Short answer, tightvnc (xvnc) as a lightweight virtual X server, although Firefox does require at least part of the X libraries to be installed in order to be able to run, even though the real X server is not started. If you need more details, I could look into the exact configuration. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/