Integration Testing in Python

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Integration Testing In Python And why I Love it so Much Mike Leone Panoptic Development February 29, 2012

What are web application integration tests?

High-level TESTS

High-level TESTS That simulate Web Browser Interaction

A.K.A. Acceptance Testing Browser Testing

Web apps? Unit testing? Integration testing?

EXAMPLE Test that a user can log in to your web app

EXAMPLE

USE CASES?

Customer-tracked user stories

High-level tests that span multiple components

High-level tests that span multiple components Beyond the scope of unit tests

Large, inherited applications

Large, inherited applications A less overwhelming way to track big feature sets

Non-application updates

Non-application updates Testing client applications after a data migration or infrastructure upgrades

But integration tests can test low-level logic too!

But integration tests can test low-level logic too! So let's write integration tests only, and forgo unit tests!

Pick your Battles

Pick your Battles <ul><li>Integration tests are SLOW </li></ul>

Pick your Battles <ul><li>Integration tests are SLOW

There's more state to manage </li></ul>

Pick your Battles <ul><li>Integration tests are SLOW

There's more state to manage

They take longer to update </li></ul>

Pick your Battles <ul><li>Integration tests are SLOW

There's more state to manage

They take longer to update </li></ul>

Very simple app or CMS?

Very simple app or CMS? <ul>An integration-only test suite may make sense </ul>

Existing tools

Existing tools: Bare-metal selenium

import xmlrpclib # Make an object to represent the XML-RPC server. server_url = "http://localhost:8080/selenium-drive...

import xmlrpclib # Make an object to represent the XML-RPC server. server_url = "http://localhost:8080/selenium-drive...

import xmlrpclib # Make an object to represent the XML-RPC server. server_url = "http://localhost:8080/selenium-drive...

Existing tools: Splinter

from splinter.browser import Browser browser = Browser() browser.visit('http://google.com') browser.fill('q', 'splinter - ...

from splinter.browser import Browser browser = Browser() browser.visit('http://google.com') browser.fill('q', 'splinter - ...

from splinter.browser import Browser browser = Browser() browser.visit('http://google.com') browser.fill('q', 'splinter - ...

Navigation still a bit clunky </li></ul>

The Ruby community is obsessed With testing

The Ruby community is obsessed With testing How do they do it?

# Example: Capybara test framework include Rack::Test::Methods def test_it_says_welcome get '/' click 'link text' assert r...

# Example: Capybara test framework include Rack::Test::Methods def test_it_says_welcome get '/' click 'link text' assert r...

# Example: Capybara test framework include Rack::Test::Methods def test_it_says_welcome get '/' click 'link text' assert r...

Enter easy_integration!

Enter easy_integration! The lightweight testing lib I wrote.

easy_integration <ul><li>Runs on top of splinter </li></ul>

easy_integration <ul><li>Runs on top of splinter </li><ul><ul><li>Which runs on top of selenium </li></ul></ul></ul>

easy_integration <ul><li>Runs on top of splinter </li><ul><ul><li>Which runs on top of selenium </li></ul></ul><li>No brow...

easy_integration <ul><li>Runs on top of splinter </li><ul><ul><li>Which runs on top of selenium </li></ul></ul><li>No brow...

Smart defaults: </li><ul><ul><li>Chrome browser

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