Workflows and Pytest

Workflow:

  • Configured in .githubworkflows

  • Formatting-linting.yml

    • Executes linting provided by flake8, configured in .flake8

  • run-pytests.yml

    • Executed tests defined in tests

PyTest

  • General Documentation: pytest: helps you write better programs — pytest documentation

  • Tests can be found in tests

  • Install pytest with

pip install -U pytest

  • Executed in Terminal with

pytest tests

  • pytest finds test methods through the ‘test_ ‘ prefix

Test Structure

Structure of a test execution should follow Given-When-Then

Test Environment

Make sure to set the Environment, some methods need to be called with app_context:

with app.app_context()

Notes:

  • Sometimes DB is not updated when within the same app_context block, try creating another and calling from there.

  • Mocks do not work within async celery task, due to it running on external broker.

Further documentation can be found in the pytest documentation .