We have a master-slave windows configuration for Jenkins.

There are a bunch of GUI tests, however they only seem to run if there's a remote desktop connection (RDC) session open.

When trying to run the tests with no RDC on Slave, all desktop interaction test cases has been failed.Then,however, If we connect to the Slave's desktop and everything seems to working fine.

The Jenkins slave is launched via Java Web Start.

I read on several websites that unfortunately it is not possible to run GUI tests without RDC session.

I just want to confirm that it is true and wonder if there is any workaround.

Thanks in advance
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