Testing GUI with Fedora and openQA
summary
openQA on Fedora runs virtual machines, installs from RPMs install in 15 minutes, and exercises GUIs without adding agents to the guest (no guest installation required). Tests are Perl modules that drive mouse/keyboard and assert images via needles (a PNG plus JSON) — needles (PNG+JSON) — with fuzziness typically 96% (often lowered to ~90%). Example: a GNOME calculator test uses about eight needles for a short workflow (24 to cover all buttons), supports Wayland, and currently lacks native mouse-scroll (keyboard workaround).
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chapters (6)
- 0:00openQA and GUI testing intro
- 3:18openQA architecture
- 11:11GUI mouse and keyboard tests
- 16:33Needles in openQA
- 24:53GUI test example: calculator
- 27:05Summary and next steps
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