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Automating Command line installation

 
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Hi,
I have a software which can be installed on via command line and I have to automate the testing of this command line installation. When install script is executed on command line it prompts for lot of questions based on the user platform. So in my automation script i need to provide the anwsers ...is this possible with Python scripting language ... any reference to a good website.

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Satish
 
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I'm not sure if you need python for this. Does your product allow for silent installation?.
Typically , the installer should be able to read inputs from a file (properties file (key=value) may be).
If you want to test with different inputs then ofcourse you can use python to generate those files.

installer.exe -f installer.properties
 
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