Kill instances of Internet Explorer remotely from linux machine using Java

Question

I have several Selenium tests being run remotely from Jenkins (on Linux) to a Windows machine using Selenium Grid. I need a way to reliably kill all instances of IE before a test even begins. These tests all run end-to-end using TestNG, so this method needs to be executed at the beginning of each test, in the @BeforeMethod. I know how to use Java to kill the tasks, but since the code is actually deployed on a Linux machine those won't work (to my knowledge). Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

create a bat file on Windows PC and write the following line

taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe /T

it will kill all the instances of Internet Explorer. Now everytime you want to make sure all the internet explorer instances are closed. Run this bat file

Answer 2

You can use winrm4j to execute commands from java code on remote windows box. Something like:

 WinRmTool.Builder cmdTool = createWinRmBuilder();
 cmdTool.environment(environment);
 WinRmToolResponse cmdResponse = cmdTool.build().executeCommand("taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe /T");

Answer 3

You can either use some remote management tools for that, or just create a micro service, which will be running on a target workstation and accept http requests with commands for remote file system / tasks management.

Check this article, which describes how to build a simple service and Jenkins plugin for such kind of tasks. There're links on sources as well.