Testing Pyramid applications

Talk at Pyramid London about testing Pyramid applications. Doctest, unit testing, integration testing and functional testing all make an appearance.

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1. Testing Pyramid applications Pyramid London // James Cooke
2. Pyramid layout YourApp View YourApp Code: Models Forms etc Templating / render DB FS Events Routing / View Lookup WSGI App View callable
3. doctest • Good for: ◦ Models ◦ Form schemas ◦ Basic app logic • Modules: ◦ from mock import Mock ◦ SQLAlchemy sessions ◦ from pyramid.testing import DummyRequest
4. doctest Pyramid layout YourApp View YourApp Code: Models Forms etc Templating / render DB FS Events Routing / View Lookup WSGI App View callable Now with doctest request response
5. unit test • Good for: ◦ Basic views ◦ Models ◦ Basic app logic • Warning signs: ◦ Pyramid events ◦ View needs specific code to be tested
6. unit test doctest Pyramid layout YourApp View YourApp Code: Models Forms etc Templating / render DB FS Events Routing / View Lookup WSGI App View callable Now with doctest and unitest
7. integration test • Good for: ◦ Views - request in, response out ◦ Events! ◦ Real app logic • Warning signs: ◦ Monolithic tests ◦ Repeating code
8. integration test unit test doctest Pyramid layout YourApp View YourApp Code: Models Forms etc Templating / render DB FS Events Routing / View Lookup WSGI App View callable Now with doctest, unitest, integration test
9. unit / integration tips • Build 'good request' • Make sure events are wired in • Use real database and sessions • Context might not be None
10. wish 1: better permission testing from pyramid.httpexceptions import HTTPForbidden from my.package import view_fn self.config.testing_securitypolicy(userid='hank', permissive=False) request = testing.DummyRequest() request.context = testing.DummyResource() self.assertRaises(HTTPForbidden, view_fn, request)
11. wish 2: Better SQLAlchemy tm transaction.manager wrap on views to write data when call is finished. DetachedInstanceError: Parent instance <User at 0x3959310> is not bound to a Session; lazy load operation of attribute 'roles' cannot proceed
12. wish 3: Routing - how to test?! • Order of calls to pyramid.config. Configurator.add_route() matter • This should be programmatically testable! • Currently request.route_url() and check result.
13. functional test routing test integration test unit test doctest Pyramid layout YourApp View YourApp Code: Models Forms etc Templating / render DB FS Events Routing / View Lookup WSGI App View callable
14. functional tips • Use BDD (behaviour driven development) • behave seems like a good library • Mako rendering exceptions can die
15. functional test routing test integration test unit test doctest Pyramid testing 100% YourApp View YourApp Code: Models Forms etc Templating / render DB FS Events Routing / View Lookup WSGI App View callable
16. thanks for listening • Any questions? • @jamesfublo