Writting py test for sqlalchemy app

Question

I am trying convert unit test into py test. I am using the unit test example

class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        app.config[\'TESTIN         


        

Answer 1

First off, py.test should just run the existing unittest test case. However the native thing to do in py.test is use a fixture for the setup and teardown:

import pytest

@pytest.fixture
def some_db(request):
    app.config['TESTING'] = True
    app.config['CSRF_ENABLED'] = False
    app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///' + os.path.join(basedir, 'test.db')
    db.create_all()
    def fin():
        db.session.remove()
        db.drop_all()
    request.addfinalizer(fin)

def test_foo(some_db):
    pass

Note that I have no idea about SQLAlchemy and whether there are better ways of handling it's setup and teardown. All this example demonstrates is how to turn the setup/teardown methods into a fixture.