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WinAppDriver and Desktop UI Test Automation

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Microsoft_Testing_Team
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Jan 23, 2020
Author : Edwin Hernandez Maynez   This article is a follow up on a previous post titled "UI Automation - Page Object Model and other Design Patterns" and is part of a series of posts related to U...
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RamakrishnaGutha
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Jan 22, 2022

Edwin Hernandez and others - We have been using appium for our windows app testing for quite some, the current solution is kind of manual.. Here is is how it works:

  1. Appium and desktop app is installed in windows machine
  2. Login to windows VM
  3. Run appium tests (JUnit tests - we use java)

We are planning to deploy this is cloud, but we have hit a roadblock right now.. we can successfully run the tests only if we remotely connect to windows machine.. if we just launch the tests without RDP we get the below exception:

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create a new remote session. 
Please check the server log for more details. Original error: 
An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command.

Is it possible to run appium tests without manual RDP? Really appreciate your help. Thanks