Testing Flask Applications with Pytest

Notebook on a table with the Flask log on the side and a Learning Plan in the notebook listing the Application Context and Request Context.

Introduction

This blog post serves as a guide to testing Flask applications with pytest, including how to:

Create and run Flask-specific unit and functional tests with pytest
Utilize fixtures to initialize the state for test functions
Check the coverage of the tests using coverage.py

The full article can be found on TestDriven.io: https://testdriven.io/blog/flask-pytest/