Autopilot Man Page

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

autopilot is a tool for writing functional test suites for graphical applications for Ubuntu.

OPTIONS

General Options

-h, --help	Get help from autopilot. This command can also be present after a sub-command (such as run or list) to get help on the specific com‐ mand. Further options are restricted to particular autopilot com‐ mands.
-v, --version	Display autopilot version and exit.

—enable-profile Enable collection of profile data for autopilot itself. If enabled, profile data will be stored in ‘autopilot_<pid>.profile’ in the current working directory.

list [options] suite [suite...]

List the autopilot tests found in the given test suite.

suite

See SPECIFYING SUITES

-ro, --run-order
	List tests in the order they will be run in, rather than alphabet‐ ically (which is the default).
--suites	Lists only available suites, not tests contained within the suite.

run [options] suite [suite...]

Run one or more test suites.

suite

See SPECIFYING SUITES

-o FILE, --output FILE
	Specify where the test log should be written. Defaults to stdout. If a directory is specified the file will be created with a file‐ name of <hostname>_<dd.mm.yyy_HHMMSS>.log
-f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
	Specify the format for the log. Valid options are ‘xml’ and ‘text’ ‘subunit’ for JUnit XML, plain text, and subunit, respectively.
-ff, --failfast
	Stop the test run on the first error or failure.
-r, --record	Record failed tests. Using this option requires the ‘recordmydesk‐ top’ application be installed. By default, videos are stored in /tmp/autopilot
--record-options
	Comma separated list of options to pass to recordmydesktop

-rd DIR, –record-directory DIR

Directory where videos should be stored (overrides the default set by the -r option).

-ro, --random-order
	Run the tests in random order
-v, --verbose	Causes autopilot to print the test log to stdout while the test is running.
--debug-profile
	Select a profile for what additional debugging information should be attached to failed test results.
--timeout-profile
	Alter the timeout values Autopilot uses. Selecting ‘long’ will make autopilot use longer timeouts for various polling loops. This can be useful if autopilot is running on very slow hardware

launch [options] application

Launch an application with introspection enabled.

-v, --verbose	Show autopilot log messages. Set twice to also log data useful for debugging autopilot itself.
-i INTERFACE, --interface INTERFACE
	Specify which introspection interace to load. The default (‘Auto’) uses ldd to try and detect which interface to load. Options are Gtk and Qt.

vis [options]

Open the autopilot visualizer tool.

-v, --verbose	Show autopilot log messages. Set twice to also log data useful for debugging autopilot itself.
-testability	Start the vis tool in testability mode. Used for self-tests only.

SPECIFYING SUITES

Suites are listed as a python dotted package name. Autopilot will do a recursive import in order to find all tests within a python package.