Ui Tests Local Vm

microsoft/PowerToys/.github/skills/ui-tests-local-vm

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Run PowerToys UITest.Next suites in persistent Hyper-V VMs over PowerShell Direct. Validate full default and constrained suites on Windows 10 and Windows 11, plus applicable ARM64 guests, then automatically hand implementation tasks to ui-tests-pipeline-ci for commit/push and CI validation. Local green is not end-to-end completion. Use for agentic UI-test iteration, reusable standard-user desktops, payload staging, evidence export, VM customization, clean baselines, or hosts without nested virtu

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Versionv1.0.0

AuthorMicrosoft

Categorycoding

Skill IDmicrosoft/PowerToys/.github/skills/ui-tests-local-vm

Files25 files

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