Update Flask unit testing of application

[cthoyt]

Update Flask unit testing of application

[scolby33]

What's your take on the current state of testing and where would you like it to be?

[cthoyt]

Just found this tutorial on how to do testing of user interactions with a Flask web application using a library called Selenium: https://scotch.io/tutorials/test-a-flask-app-with-selenium-webdriver-part-1

Also this: https://realpython.com/blog/python/modern-web-automation-with-python-and-selenium/

[scolby33]

I've used Selenium before--it works pretty well but, boy, is it slow. This would definitely be not the sort of test you want to run as you iterate your code.

[cthoyt]

Perhaps a separate set of tests to be run before shipping? The problem is you really would have to trust it has good test coverage and that has not been so easy to script for our human drone testing

[scolby33]

This remains a particularly hard problem. I'll read your references and see what I can come up with.