How to automate installer testing

Question

I\'m wondering if anyone has any best practices for automating the testing of installers on various machines with potentially different hardware / software profiles and by s

Answer 1

We have created a set of VMs and find it is very easy to manage. We run the tests for 13 different Windows installers over night. The VMs we have created our very bare bones, so it is possible to run a number of tests in parallel.