Sure, I can run the actual browser and then run tests off of that by
simulating a web client. One disadvantage of that, though, is that I
don't think I can do fancy analysis like code coverage reports. But
it's good to keep the options open. Thanks.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Branko Vukelic
<[email protected]> wrote:
> IIRC, web.py has a built-in browser that you can use for testing. A
> long time ago, I used it successfully to test an app in conjunction
> with nose. I don't remember the specifics, though, but the source code
> was very readable, last time I've looked at it.
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Pete Emerson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What are you using to unit test your web.py application?
>>
>> Following what I found on the web.py website, I started in with paste and 
>> nose:
>>
>> http://webpy.org/cookbook/testing_with_paste_and_nose
>>
>> but as a Python newbie I'm struggling due to lack of great examples.
>>
>> For instance, my app returns a '400 Bad Request' under certain
>> circumstances, and so far I haven't been able to get the 400 code back
>> and also validate the response. By running my app and curling it, I
>> know that I'm producing a 400 Bad Request with some JSON text, but I
>> can't test it with paste / nose.
>>
>> This code:
>>
>> r = testApp.post('/auth', headers={'Content-Type':'text/plain'}, params=text)
>> assert_equal(r.status, 400)
>>
>> throws an exception (AppError: Bad response: 400 Bad Request (not 200
>> OK or 3xx redirect for /auth)), and it looks like I should be
>> leveraging assert_raises from nose.tools, but I haven't been able to
>> find the golden code yet to solve this one.
>>
>> I'd be happy to show more code to try to fix this particular problem,
>> but it seems to me there might be other testing frameworks out there
>> that are full of good examples that might be a better fit for me. I'm
>> curious to hear what others are using to do their testing; the answer
>> may be that paste / nose is really the right tool, and I simply need
>> to be less of a Python newbie. If that's the case, so be it!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pete
>>
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