Check if product installed successfully

Question

I am working on product testing automation. I just want to ask is there anyway to check that product has installed successfully by using Batch script?

I am using Win7 64-bit.

Answer 1

It depends on the way your product installs. Your check script could check for the existence of files:

IF EXIST filename (
    REM Do one thing
) ELSE (
    REM Do another thing
)

(from How to check if a file exists from inside a batch file)

You could also check for registry keys, for example:

REG QUERY HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office

will output something like:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\MS Project
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook

depending on what's installed on your computer.

(from Reading child registry key from regedit in batch file)

There are numbers of options, it's better if you can modify/work with the internals of your the installer to know what to check for.

Answer 2

See if your installer returns an errorlevel. Errorlevel zero is generally an indicator of success

@echo off
setup.exe /switches
if not errorlevel 1 echo installation succeeded.