29 September 2025 to 1 October 2025
Europe/Vienna timezone

Introducing wltest - automating wayland client & driver testing

30 Sep 2025, 17:50
5m
Lightning Talk (5 minutes) Lightning Talk Lightning Talks

Speaker

Austin Shafer (NVIDIA)

Description

As Wayland increasingly becomes the default in distro releases, one issue frequently encountered is how to handle automated testing. This talk introduces "wltest", a small open source test suite written in Rust that we have started building at NVIDIA to better support automated Wayland testing with our driver CI systems. wltest runs as a regular desktop client and does not require custom builds or headless test setups. We will discuss the challenges of client automation on Wayland, how wltest can help the community, driver bugs wltest has found, and what the future of Wayland testing could look like with community collaboration.

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