{"id":39,"date":"2011-01-24T19:13:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T18:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:11:44","slug":"testing-pyramid-applications-with-zope-testbrowser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2011\/01\/24\/testing-pyramid-applications-with-zope-testbrowser\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing pyramid applications with zope.testbrowser"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pyramid<\/a> documentation recommends<\/a> using WebTest<\/a> for functional tests, but coming from the Zope world, zope.testbrowser<\/a> is the more familiar tool for this job (and it seems a little more high-level than WebTest at first glance).<\/p>\n

With the 3.11 release,\u00a0 zope.testbrowser gained out-of-the-box support for talking to WSGI applications (courtesy of wsgi_intercept<\/a>), so herewith some corresponding example code to show the basic usage and setup. (This assumes you are using zope.testrunner or something else that supports its layers).<\/p>\n

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import unittest\r\nimport zope.testbrowser.wsgi\r\n\r\nclass MyAppLayer(zope.testbrowser.wsgi.Layer):\r\n\r\n    def make_wsgi_app(self):\r\n        from myapp import main\r\n        return main({})\r\n\r\nMY_APP_LAYER = MyAppLayer()\r\n\r\nclass FunctionalTests(unittest.TestCase):\r\n\r\n    layer = MY_APP_LAYER\r\n\r\n    def test_root(self):\r\n        browser = zope.testbrowser.wsgi.Browser()\r\n        browser.open('http:\/\/localhost\/')\r\n        self.failUnless('Pyramid' in browser.contents)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Pyramid documentation recommends using WebTest for functional tests, but coming from the Zope world, zope.testbrowser is the more familiar tool for this job (and it seems a little more high-level than WebTest at first glance). With the 3.11 release,\u00a0 zope.testbrowser gained out-of-the-box support for talking to WSGI applications (courtesy of wsgi_intercept), so herewith some … Continue reading “Testing pyramid applications with zope.testbrowser”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10315341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10221],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFP3y-D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2351,"url":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2017\/05\/03\/zope-2-resurrection-sprint-day-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":39,"position":0},"title":"Zope 2 Resurrection Sprint \u2013 Day 1","author":"Michael Howitz","date":"May 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to the\u00a0Zope 2 Resurrection Sprint in Halle (Saale), Germany. 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