Improving testing coverage

Now we will write additional tests functions to improve the testing coverage. Specifically, we will write unit tests related to notifications and users.

Open the existing service/tests/test_views.py file and insert the following lines after the last line. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_04_02 folder, in the Flask01/service/tests/test_views.py file:

def create_notification(client, message, ttl,notification_category): 
 url = url_for('service.notificationlistresource', _external=True) data = {'message': message, 'ttl': ttl, 'notification_category': notification_category} response = client.post( url, headers=get_authentication_headers(TEST_USER_NAME, TEST_USER_PASSWORD), data=json.dumps(data)) ...

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