My question is related to this thread: Typical software & tools short-list for *manual* QA specialist (tester) working environment
The answers to this question seemed to be mostly/entirely from a Windows viewpoint. My company develops a backup app for UNIX environments and I'm looking for a way to automate the testing of actions in the GUI interface. Any ideas for this?
Traditionally Linux GUIs are just a thin layer over a command line application, consider testing the command line application separately than test the GUI using a mock application.
Test the underlying code as mentioned by Rsf.
Consider using tcltest
https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/tcltest.htm and
http://wiki.tcl.tk/14465
More specifically about the gui - https://stackoverflow.com/q/3771683/631619
Record and play - http://wiki.tcl.tk/15726
Depending on what exactly you're wanting to automate (just clicking on certain places on the screen? Or actually creating a dialog that expects/interprets certain displays/alerts and then does something -- clicking or typing -- in response?) and the software that is providing your GUI -- check out X11::GUITest or Sikuli.
