Using Fixtures for Setup and Teardown

Fixtures are going to help us a lot with testing the Cards application. The Cards application is designed with an API that does most of the work and logic, and a thin CLI. Especially because the user interface is rather thin on logic, focusing most of our testing on the API will give us the most bang for our buck. The Cards application also uses a database, and dealing with the database is where fixtures are going to help out a lot.

Make Sure Cards Is Installed

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Examples in this chapter require having the Cards application installed. If you haven’t already installed the Cards application, be sure to install ...

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