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Mastering Flask Web Development

You're reading from   Mastering Flask Web Development Build enterprise-grade, scalable Python web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995405
Length 332 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jack Stouffer Jack Stouffer
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Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Creating Models with SQLAlchemy FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Views with Templates 4. Creating Controllers with Blueprints 5. Advanced Application Structure 6. Securing Your App 7. Using NoSQL with Flask 8. Building RESTful APIs 9. Creating Asynchronous Tasks with Celery 10. Useful Flask Extensions 11. Building Your Own Extension 12. Testing Flask Apps 13. Deploying Flask Apps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

User interface testing

In order to test the high level of our application's code and to create system tests, we will write tests that work with browsers, and verify that the UI code is functioning properly. Using a tool called Selenium, we will create Python code that hooks into a browser and controls it purely from code. This works by finding elements on the screen, and then performing actions on those elements through Selenium. Click on it or input keystrokes. Also, Selenium allows you to perform checks on the page content by giving you access to the elements' content, such as their attributes and inner text. For more advanced checks, Selenium even has an interface which can run arbitrary JavaScript on the page. If the JavaScript returns a value, it is automatically converted into a Python type.

Before we touch the code, Selenium needs to be installed. Make sure you...

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