#100DaysOfWeb in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 81-84: Unit testing web apps
Lecture: Setting up the app to be tested
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All right, it's time to start writing some code. So, what app are we going to work with? Well, of course, one that we've already been working with.
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Here we are in our 81 to 84 unit testing chapter and you can see, there's nothing. So, what we want to do is take our demo code
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from our migrations chapter, that's our bill tracker app. We want to use it here. Now of course, copying this over does not work well
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with the virtual environment and the egg and things like that, the package registrations. So, let's go over here and start this from scratch.
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Once again, I will create a virtual environment and then we can go and open this in PyCharm. Now, it looks scary 'cause everything is red
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but that just means it's not yet committed but it already has the runner and it looks like it's already configured.
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Let's just see that this runs, one more time. Oh, of course, we have to install our project, make sure
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it's using the virtual environment that we created. It looks like it's on the wrong one, super let's fix that real quick.
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Here we go, we have our local one from the unit testing one we've just created. Now, let's go ahead and set up our project
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so we'll say Python setup.py develop. We also have our requirements that we need to deal with.
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Super, okay so it looks like everything is ready to roll. Alright, let's go ahead and run it and there we have it, our app is working once again.
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So, you can tell, obviously from this we using Pyramid to write these tests, but the idea is very very similar
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for Django, it's very very similar for Flask. So we got to pick one of web frameworks we're going to use this one that we've been building up
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over time, but the ideas you learn here obviously apply to all the frameworks. Okay, our app is up and running. Next thing to do, actually
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is to do a little bit of reorganization so it's easier to write and control and manage these tests.