Automating Unit Testing In Pyqt5 Using Gitlab's Ci: Qxcbconnection Error

I am creating a GUI skeleton (for now) using PyQt5 and I have written some unit tests (using Python's unittest package) for testing its basic features. While trying to automate the

Solution 1:

You can try setting the backend used by Qt to "offscreen" by setting the env var QT_QPA_PLATFORM in your .yml file.

job1:
    stage: test
    variables:
      QT_QPA_PLATFORM: "offscreen"
    script: python3 -m unittest -v test.GuiTest