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🤓 Intro Manual testing of GUI applications can become tedious and error-prone as features and complexity increase. Headless testing offers a solution by automating UI interactions without the need for a physical display. This approach allows for faster test execution, improved repeatability, and seamless integration with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. In this post, we’ll explore how to leverage pytest-qt, a powerful framework for headless testing of PySide/PyQt applications. ...

Intro Bubbletea is a framework with a philosophy based on The Elm Architecture: Making it simple, it breaks into three parts: Model: the state of your application View: a way to turn your state into something to display Update: a way to update your state based on messages The framework’s runtime manages everything else: from messages orchestration to low-level rendering details. Example Let’s say you want to create the classic to-do list: ...

🙀 Something breaks If you use linux running some applications you could have seen sometimes a similar error message: [1] 24975 segmentation fault (core dumped) what’s meaning and how it can be useful ? Let’s dig it out. 🧪 Lab Setup To make a proper case study, we need a crashing program. Of course they are very rare nowadays 😁 so we just create a new one ourself, showing off our worst C coding bad skills and practices. ...

Intro: [SYN] Last 7-8 March 2024 I was at Open Source Day 2024: a free conference organized by Schrodinger-Hat Open Source Community. Two days of talks, meeting old and new friends, networking and fun in a beautiful city. Since the event was split into two tracks, I had to carefully choose which one to attend ; if you are interested all the sessions was recorded and live streamed. Day Stream Recording links 1 Alpha Track Beta Track 2 Alpha Track Beta Track Speaking of open source events, each talk proposal is simply an issue on a GitHub repository, and the selection was done by picking the ones with most “thumbs up” vote from the community. ...