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Test-Driven Development with Python, 2nd Edition
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Test-Driven Development with Python, 2nd Edition

by Harry Percival
August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
12h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 21. Server-Side Debugging

Popping a few layers off the stack of things we’re working on: we have nice wait-for helpers; what were we using them for? Oh yes, waiting to be logged in. And why was that? Ah yes, we had just built a way of pre-authenticating a user.

The Proof Is in the Pudding: Using Staging to Catch Final Bugs

They’re all very well for running the FTs locally, but how would they work against the staging server? Let’s try to deploy our site. Along the way we’ll catch an unexpected bug (that’s what staging is for!), and then we’ll have to figure out a way of managing the database on the test server:

$ git push  # if you haven't already
$ cd deploy_tools
$ fab deploy --host=elspeth@superlists-staging.ottg.eu
[...]

And restart Gunicorn…

elspeth@server:$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
elspeth@server:$ sudo systemctl restart gunicorn-superlists-staging.ottg.eu

Here’s what happens when we run the functional tests:

$ STAGING_SERVER=superlists-staging.ottg.eu python manage.py test functional_tests ====================================================================== ERROR: test_logged_in_users_lists_are_saved_as_my_lists (functional_tests.test_my_lists.MyListsTest) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "...python-tdd-book/functional_tests/test_my_lists.py", line 34, in test_logged_in_users_lists_are_saved_as_my_lists self.wait_to_be_logged_in(email) [...] selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: ...
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