Hey unity (7.0) hackers, I put together something this weekend that I thought people might find useful if they're running autopilot tests.
unity-autopilot-wrapper is effectively a Google Test ::testing::Environment (with a few other related tools) which will allow you to spawn a self-contained instance of Unity in a headless X Server or Xephyr using the ubuntu default settings. This should make it a lot easier to run those tests should you need to do so without having to worry about changing all the settings back to their defaults and closing open windows etc. Currently, its features are: * - Spawns a new dbus-session bus and exports its address as the one to use for the test * - Spawns a headless X Server or Xephyr * - Spawns compiz inside of that, connected to the new dbus session (this in turn causes fresh instances of bamfdaemon, unity-panel-service, hud-service, lenses, etc to spawn just for that dbus session). * - Enumerates through the available autopilot tests and runs each autopilot test as a separate test in the Google Test binary (so you can track the progress of the tests) * - Allows filtering through those tests on startup (so you can just run one autopilot test in a self-contained session to check it quickly) * - Allows you to specify a custom compizconfig profile to load, compiz binary to launch and even where compiz plugins should be loaded from, so you don't have to use the installed compiz and unity to run the tests. * - A sample of the environment can be installed and run from anywhere, which runs all the autopilot tests installed inside of a Xephyr window. Perhaps ideal for autopkgtests. The source code can be found at my GitHub repository: * - git://github.com/smspillaz/unity-autopilot-wrapper At the moment, there isn't an ubuntu package. I'd like to do a daily build, but launchpad imports don't work with git repositories that have submodules and this one does. Perhaps I'll get a PPA up and running soon enough. Caveats: * - It renders using llvmpipe which is pretty CPU heavy. I've not been able to complete a whole run of the tests without heat problems on my machine. YMMV. * - There may be *some* false negatives. I've seen a few failures but so far I've been able to reproduce them in a real session too. * - Xephyr seems to create two windows at the moment. Not sure why, just minimize the other one. Screenshot, in case anybody is interested: http://www.ucc.asn.au/~smspillaz/autopilot-xephyr.png Best, Sam -- Sam Spilsbury -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
