Automated testing

[lawmurray]

Thought I'd throw this out there for anyone about who is experienced in testing graphical apps across multiple Linux distributions. Are there automated tools for this sort of thing? I know of OpenQA but I'm not sure it handles apps as such.

I would like to set up tests for Mending Wall (on e.g. CircleCI) along the lines of:

1. Have a container for a particular Linux distribution.
2. Build and install Mending Wall.
3. Launch it (by dbus perhaps, if there is no way to do this headless).
4. Test that switching on and off the options behaves as expected, and turning off all options ends the background process (again, could be done by dbus if there is no way to do this headless).
5. Test that when the user logs in, the background process starts.
6. Test that when the user logs out, the background process ends.

Steps 1-4 seem straightforward. It's steps 5-6 that simulate a user logging in and logging out where I'm wondering whether there are tools to help with this.