In this workshop, Oreoluwa will walk us through KdeGuiTest, an open-source automation tool used to emulate user interaction with different software applications. KdeGuiTest (previously called KdeEcoTest) is an automation and testing tool which allows one to record and simulate user interactions with the GUI of an application. It is being developed as part of the KDE Eco initiative to create usage scenario scripts for measuring the energy consumption of software.

The KDE community has been producing free software for almost 30 years. This does not only include the Plasma desktop environment but hundreds of applications. Virtually all of these applications are written in C++. As part of the "Streamlined Application Development Experience" initiative we want to open the door to include other programming languages as well. In this talk we are going to look at the recent work on enabling writing KDE applications using Python, how to do it, and how to get involved with improving the support for it.