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diff --git a/docs/quick_tutorial/functional_testing.rst b/docs/quick_tutorial/functional_testing.rst index b8aa7e87d..33793578a 100644 --- a/docs/quick_tutorial/functional_testing.rst +++ b/docs/quick_tutorial/functional_testing.rst @@ -6,30 +6,33 @@ Write end-to-end full-stack testing using ``webtest``. + Background ========== -Unit tests are a common and popular approach to test-driven development -(TDD). In web applications, though, the templating and entire apparatus -of a web site are important parts of the delivered quality. We'd like a -way to test these. +Unit tests are a common and popular approach to test-driven development (TDD). +In web applications, though, the templating and entire apparatus of a web site +are important parts of the delivered quality. We'd like a way to test these. + +`WebTest <http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/webtest/en/latest/>`_ is a +Python package that does functional testing. With WebTest you can write tests +which simulate a full HTTP request against a WSGI application, then test the +information in the response. For speed purposes, WebTest skips the +setup/teardown of an actual HTTP server, providing tests that run fast enough +to be part of TDD. -WebTest is a Python package that does functional testing. With WebTest -you can write tests which simulate a full HTTP request against a WSGI -application, then test the information in the response. For speed -purposes, WebTest skips the setup/teardown of an actual HTTP server, -providing tests that run fast enough to be part of TDD. Objectives ========== -- Write a test which checks the contents of the returned HTML +- Write a test which checks the contents of the returned HTML. + Steps ===== -#. First we copy the results of the previous step, as well as install - the ``webtest`` package: +#. First we copy the results of the previous step, as well as install the + ``webtest`` package: .. code-block:: bash @@ -43,31 +46,28 @@ Steps .. literalinclude:: functional_testing/tutorial/tests.py :linenos: - Be sure this file is not executable, or ``nosetests`` may not - include your tests. + Be sure this file is not executable, or ``pytest`` may not include your + tests. #. Now run the tests: .. code-block:: bash + $ $VENV/bin/py.test tutorial/tests.py -q + .. + 2 passed in 0.25 seconds - $ $VENV/bin/nosetests tutorial - . - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Ran 2 tests in 0.141s - - OK Analysis ======== -We now have the end-to-end testing we were looking for. WebTest lets us -simply extend our existing ``nose``-based test approach with functional -tests that are reported in the same output. These new tests not only -cover our templating, but they didn't dramatically increase the -execution time of our tests. +We now have the end-to-end testing we were looking for. WebTest lets us simply +extend our existing ``pytest``-based test approach with functional tests that +are reported in the same output. These new tests not only cover our templating, +but they didn't dramatically increase the execution time of our tests. + -Extra Credit +Extra credit ============ #. Why do our functional tests use ``b''``? |