What's the recommended way to unittest Python GUI applications?

Question

I\'m currently foolish enough to try to maintaintain two parallel code bases for a Python desktop application, one using PyGObject introspection for GTK 3 and one using PyGTK fo

Answer 1

You can use a X11 framebuffer:

Xvfb :119 -screen 0 1024x768x16 &
export DISPLAY=:119
... run your tests

Be sure, to not enter gtk.main(), since this would wait for mouse or keyboard input. You can use this pattern to let gtk handle all events:

def refresh_gui():
  while gtk.events_pending():
      gtk.main_iteration_do(block=False)

AFAIK you can't see your application, but you can test your callbacks.