Testing: HTTP & Database testing

[nknaian]

This ticket is to setup the testing infrastructure and write tests to cover the current user-facing functionality of the website.

Setup: Based on some research it seems that the way to go will be to use python's 'unittest' framework, along with flask's 'Flask-Testing' package. Piecing together the info at the following links should be able to lead to something that can work for us:

• [miguel mega tutorial part 8] (https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-viii-followers) (Look at the 'Unit Testing the User Model' section)
• Flask-Testing sqlalchemy

Implications of setup:

• May need to change the __init__.py flask app setup to work with this...utilizing a 'create_app' function
• Will need to mock the entire spotify interface....for these tests I want to treat spotify as a black box. Let's just create some mock tracks/albums and use those to make sure that the website navigation and storage works as expected

Example test: An example of the sort of test I'm thinking about is: "Create a new track round, and submit a track. Make sure that the track gets stored in the database and that the user's name shows up on the page upon the next 'get' of the round page"

[nknaian]

Miguel has made some changes to his unit testing setup since his blog post. Taking a look at his tutorial's github gives some more insight into how we may be able to set this up: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/microblog