How to tests with web2py. Need importing gluon libs. _____________________________________________ *Gilson Filho* *Web Developer http://gilsondev.com*
2011/6/11 Pierre Thibault <pierre.thibau...@gmail.com> > 2011/6/10 contatogilson...@gmail.com <contatogilson...@gmail.com> > > Hello guys, >> >> I started to create a script to test the scripts that use the library >> unittest projects web2py. I usually like this: >> >> - I create the folder *tests* in the project; >> - Inside the tests folder create two folders: *models* and *controllers*; >> >> For now, I have done is to test the model layer. But I ask the help and >> contribution ofall to improve this script, and so we have a full support to >> the use of TDD in both themodel layer as the control. This is good for >> people like me, sympathized greatly with doctests. >> >> > Hello Gilson, > > This is something I thought about. Here is my idea about web2py testing: > > 1) I want to use py.test (http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/) for testing. I > don't want to have to create my test suits manually and with py.test I can > mark my functions with decorators to create test suits. > > 2) For the controllers, I want to create two types of tests: web GUI tests > and headless tests. > > For the web gui tests, I plan to use Windmill (http://www.getwindmill.com/ > ). > > For the headless tests, I plan to use WebTest ( > http://pythonpaste.org/webtest/). > > More specifically, I want my test suits to start web2py on another thread. > This way pydev will be able to give me the code coverage at the end of my > tests. For headless tests, I plan with send my http request with a special > argument like "test=true" so my controller will know it is a test. Then I > will decorate my controller functions so that instead of returning a > dictionary to be rendered by the view, it will stream the dictionary as a > file and my tests will be able to easily analyze the results by downloading > the file and recreating the same dictionary. > > Yet, I have to implemented this solution but this is what I have in mind. > > -- > > > A+ > > ------------- > Pierre > My blog and profile > (http://pierrethibault.posterous.com)<http://pierrethibault.posterous.com> > YouTube page > (http://www.youtube.com/user/tubetib)<http://www.youtube.com/user/tubetib> > Twitter (http://twitter.com/pierreth2) <http://twitter.com/pierreth2> > >
