Framework for unit testing Flask views. flask_viewunit lets you test the
behavior of your views without going all the way to scripting the browser with
something like Selenium or Watir. It's ideal for verifying server-side
behavior that's light on JavaScript.
A test looks something like this:
class ApiTest(ViewTestCase):
def trivial_test(self):
self.run_view('/',
expect_tmpl='index.html',
expect_tmpl_data={'user_id': None})
def test_post_message_file(self):
message_contents = "This is a test message!")
resp = self.run_view(
'/api/messages/add',
'POST',
data={'message': StringIO(message_contents),
'folder_id': TEST_FOLDER_ID},
expect_db_has=[
('messages', {'folder_id': TEST_FOLDER_ID,
'message_text': message_contents})])
eq_(201, resp.status_code)
For an example of how to set up ViewUnit tests for your app, see
tests/app.py (the Flask app being tested), tests/app_test.py
(configuration for ViewUnit) and tests/test_example.py
(an actual test of app.py).
pip install git+https://github.com/wingu/flask_viewunit- Clone this repository and run
python setup.py install
flask_viewunit may work with different versions of the following dependencies.
- Python 2.7
- Flask 0.8
- Flask-WTF 0.6
- html5lib 0.95
- mock 0.8.0
- nose 1.2.1