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Mastering Flask

By : Jack Stouffer
Book Image

Mastering Flask

By: Jack Stouffer

Overview of this book

Starting from a simple Flask app, this book will walk through advanced topics while providing practical examples of the lessons learned. After building a simple Flask app, a proper app structure is demonstrated by transforming the app to use a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. With a scalable structure in hand, the next chapters use Flask extensions to provide extra functionality to the app, including user login and registration, NoSQL querying, a REST API, an admin interface, and more. Next, you’ll discover how to use unit testing to take the guesswork away from making sure the code is performing as it should. The book closes with a discussion of the different platforms that are available to deploy a Flask app on, the pros and cons of each one, and how to deploy on each one.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Flask
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Test coverage


Now that our tests have been written, we have to know whether our code is sufficiently tested. The concept of test coverage, also known as code coverage, was invented to solve this issue. In any project, the test coverage represents what percentage of the code in the project was executed when the tests were run, and which lines were never run. This gives an idea of what parts of the project aren't being tested in our unit tests. To add coverage reports to our project, install the coverage library with pip as follows:

$ pip install coverage

The coverage library can be run as a command-line program that will run your test suite and take its measurements while the tests are running.

$ coverage run --source webapp --branch -m unittest discover

The --source flag tells coverage to only report on the coverage for the files in the webapp directory. If that weren't included, the percentages for all the libraries used in the app would be included as well. By default, if any code in an...