Testing TraitsUI Applications

TraitsUI provides a toolkit independent API to help developers check the behavior of their applications in automated tests.

Most of the testing functionality can be accessed via the traitsui.testing.api module.

Note

The testing library is relatively new compared to other features in TraitsUI. Built-in support for testing TraitsUI editors are continuously being added.

Get started

• First simple test
• Testing with nested objects

How-to guides

• Add support for performing actions or inspecting states
• Add support for locating a nested GUI element

Discussions

• Limitations on automated GUI testing
• Debugging GUI tests at runtime
• Compatibility with Pyface test utilities
• GUI event processing and exception handling
• Understanding Target, Interaction and Location
• How extension works

Technical Reference

• Examples