There is no official approach, testing is being an issue for a long time, there was a project called web2py test runner, but the maintainer abandoned the project.
If you can contribute with something on this subject, your contribution will be very welcome. The main problem of testing is the fact that web2py runs its own environment, for some things this environment depends on "request", "response" "session" and other state objects which exists only when the application is running on a webserver. I think a good test approach would be creating mocks for that objects and so having a "fake" environment to run the tests on shell. $ python web2py.py -S appname -M -R /path/tests.py The above command will open web2py in a shell mode and runs the tests.py script since the environment is ready, but on this environment we do not have full "request", "session" and "response" objects, so we need some mocking for this. --
