Building RESTful Python Web Services

Running unit tests with nose2 and checking testing coverage

Now, run the following command to create all the necessary tables in our test database and use the nose2 test running to execute all the tests we created. The test runner will execute all the methods for our TestHexacopter class that start with the test_ prefix and will display the results. In this case, we just have one method that matches the criteria, but we will add more later.

Run the following command within the same virtual environment we have been using. We will use the -v option to instruct nose2 to print test case names and statuses. The --with-coverage option turns on test coverage reporting generation:

nose2 -v --with-coverage

The following lines show the sample output. Notice ...