Building RESTful Python Web Services

Improving testing coverage

Now, we will write additional unit tests to improve the testing coverage. Specifically, we will write unit tests related to messages and users. Open the existing api/tests/test_views.py file and insert the following lines after the last line, within the InitialTests class. We need a new import statement and we will declare the new PlayerTests class. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_08_02 folder:

    def create_message(self, message, duration, category): url = url_for('api.messagelistresource', _external=True) data = {'message': message, 'duration': duration, 'category': category} response = self.test_client.post( url, headers=self.get_authentication_headers(self.test_user_name, self.test_user_password), ...