Summary

In this chapter, we have covered the different kinds of tests that can be written for your projects. Functional tests are those that you will write more often, with WebTest being a great tool to use for such a purpose. To run the tests, pytest combined with Tox will make your life easier.

We also covered some tips on writing good documentation and ensuring that the tests are run in an automated way. Last, but not least, if you host your project on GitHub, you can set up a whole CI system for free, thanks to GitHub Actions. From there, numerous free services can be hooked to complement the tools available, like Coveralls. You can also automatically build and publish your documentation on ReadTheDocs.

If you want to look at how everything fits together, the microservice project published on GitHub uses GitHub Actions, ReadTheDocs, and coveralls.io to do so: https://github.com/PythonMicroservices/microservice-skeleton/

Now that we've covered how a Quart project...