Get App Ready for Testing

[AlJohri]

Built in flask testing

• http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/testing/

Flask-Testing Extension

• https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Testing/
• requires(?) create_app paradigm (http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/20/)
  • this is basically a factory pattern (if I understand it correctly for flask apps allowing you to create different apps based on the input configuration)

Compare the two approaches and see what Flask-Testing brings to the table. It seems to be some nice syntactic sugar and people in the community seem pretty active.

[AlJohri]

Its common to use nose to test in python http://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

it works with Flask-Testint OOB (out of the box)