add unit testing via 'make test'

.travis.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ matrix:
       before_install:
         - sudo pip install lxml
         - make qt4py2
-        - ( xvfb-run python2.7 labelImg.py ) & sleep 10 ; kill $!
+        - xvfb-run make testpy2
 
     # Python 2 + QT5
     # disabled; can't get it to work
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ matrix:
     #    - sudo pip install lxml
     #    - pyrcc5 --help || true  # does QT5 support python2 out of the box?
     #    - make qt5py3
-    #    - ( xvfb-run python2.7 labelImg.py ) & sleep 10 ; kill $!
+    #    - xvfb-run make testpy2
 
     # Python 3 + QT4
     - os: linux
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ matrix:
         - sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip
         - sudo pip3 install lxml
         - make qt4py3
-        - ( xvfb-run python3 labelImg.py ) & sleep 10 ; kill $!
+        - xvfb-run make testpy3
 
     # Python 3 + QT5
     - os: linux
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ matrix:
         - sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip
         - sudo pip3 install lxml
         - make qt5py3
-        - ( xvfb-run python3 labelImg.py ) & sleep 10 ; kill $!
+        - xvfb-run make testpy3
 
     # OS X Python 3 + QT5
     - os: osx
@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ matrix:
         - python3 -c 'import lxml'
         - make qt5py3
         - python3 -c 'help("modules")'
-        - ( python3 labelImg.py ) & sleep 10 ; kill $!
+        #- make testpy3  # FIXME: does not work, segfault on travis-ci
+        # just make sure the app runs... :-/
+        - ( python3 labelImg.py ) & sleep 10; kill $!
 
 script:
   - exit 0

Makefile

@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
+# ex: set ts=8 noet:
 
 all: qt4
 
+test: testpy2
+
+testpy2:
+	python -m unittest discover tests
+
+testpy3:
+	python3 -m unittest discover tests
+
 qt4: qt4py2
 
 qt5: qt4py3
@@ -14,3 +23,4 @@ qt4py3:
 qt5py3:
 	pyrcc5 -o resources.py resources.qrc
 
+.PHONY: test

labelImg.py

@@ -1187,13 +1187,21 @@ def read(filename, default=None):
     except:
         return default
 
-def main(argv):
-    """Standard boilerplate Qt application code."""
+def get_main_app(argv=[]):
+    """
+    Standard boilerplate Qt application code.
+    Do everything but app.exec_() -- so that we can test the application in one thread
+    """
     app = QApplication(argv)
     app.setApplicationName(__appname__)
     app.setWindowIcon(newIcon("app"))
     win = MainWindow(argv[1] if len(argv) == 2 else None)
     win.show()
+    return app, win
+
+def main(argv):
+    '''construct main app and run it'''
+    app, _win = get_main_app(argv)
     return app.exec_()
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':

tests/test.py

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+from labelImg import get_main_app
+
+
+class TestMainWindow(TestCase):
+
+    app = None
+    win = None
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.app, self.win = get_main_app()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.win.close()
+        self.app.quit()
+
+    def test_noop(self):
+        pass
+