flaskeztest 0.2.2

Tool to make integration testing flask app's using flask_sqlalchemy package easy to set up and organized

Flask EZ Test
=============

Making flask app's that serve html and use a flasksqlalchemy backend engine easier to test

Setup
-----
.. code::
$ pip install flaskeztest

Make sure you set the environemnt variable FLASK_APP to the file path of your main app module

.. code::
$ export FLASK_APP=myapp/app.py

flaskeztest will expect there to be a variable named 'app' under this module and another named 'db'.
'app' should be a Flask object and 'db' should be an SQLAlchemy object.

.. code:: python

# myapp/app.py
from model import db
app = Flask(__name__)
db.init_app(app)
...

# myapp/model.py
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
db = SQLAlchemy()
...

Then run all test suites with eztest command

.. code::
$ eztest

Other options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

for running one testcase under a suite

.. code::

$ eztest [suite] [testcase]

or

for running one whole suite

.. code::

$ eztest [suite]

where suite is the same as a suite module without .py and testcase is the same as the classname of the testcase

In General, the eztest object get's its settings from a special test config module which is set in app.config
as EZTEST_CONFIG_MODULE

i.e:

.. code:: python

# test/config.py

EZTEST_FIXTURES_DIR = 'test/fixtures'
EZTEST_SUITES_PACKAGE = 'test/suites'

Make sure that the suites package has a ```suite_names``` list in its __init__.py'

.. code:: python
# suites/__init__.py
suite_names = ['index']

And then in normal config module

.. code:: python
# config.py

EZTEST_CONFIG_MODULE='test/config'
...

Then in flask app module set config from normal config module

.. code:: python
# myapp.py
app = Flask(__name__)
app.from_object('config')


Developing Testcases
--------------------

Test cases are pacakged in modules that expose a 'suite' object in its global scope

Example suite 'index':

.. code:: python

# test/suites/index.py
from flaskeztest import EZTestSuite, EZTestCase

class SimpleTestCase(EZTestCase):

FIXTURE = 'myfixture' # json filename without .json

def runTest(self):
self.assertTrue(...the truth...)

...

suite = EZTestSuite('index', __name__)

Using Fixtures
--------------

Fixtures are a json file representing data to insert into the database before a test case runs

Example:

myfix.json

.. code::

[
{
"model": "User",
"row": {
"name": "Bob",
"email: "[e-mail]"
}
}
]

or with multiple entries for one model:

myfix2.json

.. code::

[
{
"model": "User",
"rows": [
{
"name": "Bob",
"email: "[e-mail]"
},
{
"name": "Alice",
"email: "[e-mail]"
}
]
}
]

The EZTestCase class
--------------------

EZTestCase's setUp method loads the fixture named in its FIXTURE class variable which places the data for each field
into the expected_models dict.

For instance:

.. code:: python

class TC(EZTestCase):

FIXTURE = 'myfix' # Referring to the first fixture above

def runTest(self):

# Passes
self.assertEqual(self.expected_models['User']['name'], 'Bob')

.. code:: python

class TC2(EZTestCase):

FIXTURE = 'myfix2' # Referring to the second fixture above

def runTest(self):

# Passes as well, but would give index error on first test case
self.assertEqual(self.expected_models['User'][1]['name], 'Alice')

Two other useful method of the EZTestCase class is 'get_endpoint' and 'does_field_exist'.

Example:

.. code:: python

class TC(EZTestCase):
FIXTURE = 'myfix2'
def runTest(self):
# Pull up user details for Alice
self.get_endpoint('index.users', user_id=2) # Assume that index.users take user primary key as argument

# Assert we see second user on page
self.assertTrue(self.does_field_exist('User', 'name', 1))

In general most of the methods defined for EZTestCase are useful to include in your own test case classes.
Check out flaskeztest/eztestcase.py for more of them.


Using capybara
--------------

Flaskeztest allows for querying the html returned from pages using capybara.
Check out the docs at https://elliterate.github.io/capybara.py/ for all the useful methods that can be applied to the
the EZTestCase.page object.

Running with a reflected SQL database
-------------------------------------

Sometimes flaskeztest may be used with a flask app that is not using declarative models with sqlalchemy, but instead
want to simply use a database whose schema is contained within the remote database itself.

One can specify the remote database that flask-eztest should reflect by setting the EZTEST_REFLECTED_DB_URI in the test config module

i.e

.. code:: python

# test/config.py
...
EZTEST_REFLECTED_DB_URI = 'mysql://..."