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Unit Testing
UnitTesting in Pecan is handled by WebTest. It creates a
fake Pecan application that in turn allows you to make assertions on how
those requests and responses are being handled without starting an HTTP
server at all.
Tools
Pecan recommends using py.test. It is actually a project
requirement when you install Pecan so you should already have it
installed.
Structure
This guide assumes that you have all your tests in a
tests directory. If you have created a project from the
base project template that Pecan provides you should
already have this directory with a few tests.
The template project uses UnitTest-type tests and some of those tests use WebTest. We will describe how they work in the next section.
This is how running those tests with py.test would look
like:
$ py.test
============== test session starts =============
platform darwin -- Python 2.6.1 -- pytest-2.0.1
collected 11 items
./tests/test_config.py .........
./tests/test_root.py ..
========== 11 passed in 0.30 seconds ===========