The Unspeakable Horror of Discovering You Didn't Write Tests
summary
A real project called Five Up starts with zero tests and the claim is simple: add tests and stop breaking things. The workflow uses Pytest, Pytest‑cov and Selenium (requires GeckoDriver) to run functional browser tests and unit tests; initial coverage sits at 28% and rises as tests for login, scheduling (divide into three groups — e.g. 10 users → 3/3/4), templates and model logic land, proving the site continues to work.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:43Melanie Crutchfield
- 11:35Functional Test
- 14:56Write Tests with Selenium
- 17:43Class for Selenium Testing
- 18:02The Context Manager
- 18:26Practice Called Test-Driven Development
- 22:10Coverage Tool
- 22:47Unit Tests
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