WIP - Baseline

[norton120]

stubbed settings locally in test_server ✅

next up

• isolate the test_server failing tests
• move the settings mock into a conftest fixture
• add a test hook for SyncServer so you can do the same thing there.
• propigate.

Please describe the purpose of this pull request. this is to get a baseline of isolated tests that are passing before making substantial changes.

How to test when this is good, all the tests will run and pass without any special environment setup.

Have you tested this PR? This is a PR for the test env

Related issues or PRs N/A

Is your PR over 500 lines of code? This will be a very large PR. Ideally it is removing more than 500 lines of code 💥

Additional context Before we can dig into adding model structure I'd like as much of a smoke test setup as we can have in place.

[norton120]

Migrated to config parser work