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Does anyone know of a automated GUI testing package for that works with PyQT besides Squish? Nothing against Squish I am just looking for other packages. It would be cool if there were an open source package. I am doing my testing under Linux.

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  • Y'know, I have a whole book on "Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby" (pragprog.com/titles/idgtr/scripted-gui-testing-with-ruby) that I got from a Ruby User Group meeting, but I've never read it so find out what kind of tools they use. Commented Oct 24, 2009 at 0:12
  • What are you trying to accomplish with this testing? Commented Dec 3, 2009 at 16:48
  • I'm very curious to know the final solution you used~ Commented Feb 10, 2011 at 9:43
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    We bought Squish. It works well and they are responsive but I love the open source python testing community and wanted to go there first. Commented Feb 12, 2011 at 1:25
  • The Python wiki has some info on this: wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt/GUI_Testing Hope this helps someone! Commented Aug 9, 2017 at 15:19

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It looks like PyQT4 includes a QtTest object that can be used for unit testing.

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WATSUP has worked for me.

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Thanks, WATSUP looks interesting for Windows GUI testing. Unfortunately I need Linux PyQT GUI testing.
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You should be able to use pyunit in conjunction with PyQT.

http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/

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While pyunit (called unittest in stdlib) is good for normal unit testing it doesn't handle GUI testing.
@PaulHildebrandt At the time of writing Python unittest works with PyQt, please see this article. Kind Regards, Tord
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You can use py.test with the pytest-qt plugin. There's a simple example of how it can be used here

Another alternative is to use the built-in unittest module together with QtTest (parts of QtTest has been built into PyQt). A longer example is given in this article

All of this is free and open source :)

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Comparing these two alternatives the first combination gives you more features and a nicer API, while the second has the advantage of not adding more dependencies
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