Building RESTful Python Web Services

Summary

In this chapter, we set up a testing environment. We installed nose2 to make it easy to discover and execute unit tests, and we created a new database to be used for testing. We wrote a first round of unit tests, measured test coverage, and then we wrote additional unit tests to improve test coverage. Finally, we understood many considerations for deployment and scalability.

Now that we have built a complex API with Flask combined with Flask RESTful, and we tested it, we will move to another popular Python Web framework, Tornado, which is what we are going to discuss in the next chapter.