Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Running unit tests with pytest and checking testing coverage

Create a new setup.cfg file within the service folder. The following lines show the code that specifies the desired configuration for pytest and the coverage tools. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_04_01 folder, in the Flask01/service/setup.cfg file:

[tool:pytest] 
testpaths = tests 
 
[coverage:run] 
branch = True 
source =  
    models 
    views 

The tool:pytest section specifies the configuration for pytest. The testpaths setting assigns the tests value to indicate that the tests are located within the tests subfolder.

The coverage:run section specifies the configuration for the coverage tool. The branch setting is set to True to enable branch coverage measurement, ...