Installation

Getting the binaries

Required binaries can be downloaded from the releases page on project’s github repository.

There are three files that you will need :

1. pixel-designer-*.zip - is a wpf based application and provides the design environment where you create your test cases. Pixel designer is intended to be used only on windows OS.
2. pixel-runner-*.zip - is a .net core cli based application that you will use to execute your test cases on dedicated machines. Binaries for both windows and linux OS are available.
3. pixel-persistence-*.zip - is an asp.net core based service to store the project data and test execution results. It also provides a blazor basesd UI to view various reports from test execution. Binaries for both windows and linux OS are available.

Additionally, you will also need mongodb which is required by pixel-persistence service to store all it’s data.

you must unblock the zip files by right click -> properties -> check unblock -> apply before extracting the files.