Documenting WineTest best practices

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Francois Gouget wrote:
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>  * Similarly on Vista and Windows 7 UAC comes into play. I believe it 
>    mostly causes some tests to be skipped. So again, are there 
>    recommandations around this?
>
>  * Are we interested in tests being run as an administrator or a regular 
>    user? Both?

On my Windows 7 VM WineTest is not running with elevated privileges. 
This is what causes the advpack:install test to time out:

http://test.winehq.org/data/6a6aab27633405aeb5e464943110960f0099dffe/index_Win7.html#advpack:install


The reason is that the calls listed below cause Windows 7 to bring up a 
dialog telling me I need administrator privileges:

   You do not have administrator privileges on this machine. This 
   installation cannot be completed correctly unless it is run by an 
   administrator.

Furthermore I get this issue even if I set UAC to 'Never notify'.

I think the tests should work in both elevated and non-elevated 
privilege accounts. So this probably means detecting the non-elevated 
case and skipping some tests. Or finding a way to tell Windows not to 
bring up that dialog and just fail.

hr = pRunSetupCommand(NULL, path, "DefaultInstall", dir, "Title", NULL, 
                      RSC_FLAG_INF | RSC_FLAG_QUIET, NULL);

hr = pRunSetupCommand(NULL, path, "DefaultInstall", "", "Title", NULL, 
                      RSC_FLAG_INF | RSC_FLAG_QUIET, NULL);

hr = pRunSetupCommand(NULL, "one\\test.inf", "DefaultInstall", dir, 
                      "Title", NULL, RSC_FLAG_INF | RSC_FLAG_QUIET, NULL);

hr = pRunSetupCommand(NULL, "one\\test.inf", "DefaultInstall", dir, 
                      "Title", NULL, RSC_FLAG_INF | RSC_FLAG_QUIET, NULL);

hr = pRunSetupCommand(NULL, "one\\test.inf", "DefaultInstall", "", 
                      "Title", NULL, RSC_FLAG_INF | RSC_FLAG_QUIET, NULL);

hr = pLaunchINFSection(NULL, NULL, cmdline, 0);

hr = pLaunchINFSection(NULL, NULL, file, 0);

hr = pLaunchINFSectionEx(NULL, NULL, cmdline, 0);



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