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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

While I think you already got an answer to your immediate question, I
think that this sounds interesting and perhaps something that could be
integrated with the application startup testing that QA is setting up.
Would be nice to have a screenshot there, and perhaps invalidate results
based on it.

Ted

On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 11:40 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:

> In short, what's the replacement for programmatically terminating
> click package based applications?
> 
> Some months back I used upstart-app-stop, but that no longer works. I
> tried "stop <app_id>" but that also doesn't work. Is the process for
> programmatically stopping apps documented.
> 
> The context is that I have a script on my pc which starts every app on
> the device one by one. It waits a few seconds then takes a screenshot.
> It analyses the picture to see if the app actually started (is the
> screen all black or all white - which are often indicators the app
> failed to start) and logs the results.
> 
> Now previously I used to use upstart-app-stop to kill off each app
> after taking the screenshot, before moving on to the next one. So I
> need to know what is the new way to stop apps for this script to
> function.
> 
> As an aside, of course I could just start each app in turn and leave
> it running, and let our application lifecycle reap the old ones - I
> guess it would be a good test of that :)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Alan Pope
> Engineering Manager
> 
> Canonical - Product Strategy
> +44 (0) 7973 620 164
> alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://ubuntu.com/
>

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