Testing: Investigate Possibilities

nknaian commented 3 years ago

Currently the only testing is flake8 (run via github tasks).

We should look into adding some more testing to make this site robust.

Unit testing: I could see adding unit tests for backend things like the spotify code, but I'm not sure it would be applicable for the front end code....would be good to get some input about what sort of 'unit' testing is generally used for websites
Manual testing (QA): Right now there's not a whole lot of different permutations of possibliities for how the site could be used. It would be nice to have a sort of 'test plan' containing a list of things to try to approve that a new feature hasn't caused regressions.

nknaian commented 3 years ago

So looks like there's a nice way of making units tests for flask stuff' https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/testing/

nknaian commented 3 years ago

I'm going to use unittest and possibly the Flask-Testing package for the unit testing. Miguel has not posted an updated tutorial on unit testing, but at this github page for the tutorial he is using unittest. I'm going to follow that for reference: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/microblog/tree/v0.23

nknaian commented 3 years ago

I created #40, #41, #42 and #43 based on research done on this ticket.

nknaian / musicrecs

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