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Learn Web Development with Python

You're reading from Learn Web Development with Python Get hands-on with Python Programming and Django web development

Product type Course

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789953299

Length 796 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Django

Concepts

Responsive Web Development

Authors (3):

Fabrizio Romano

Gaston C. Hillar

Arun Ravindran

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Table of Contents (33) Chapters

Title Page

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. A Gentle Introduction to Python

2. Built-in Data Types FREE CHAPTER

3. Iterating and Making Decisions

4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code

5. Saving Time and Memory

6. OOP, Decorators, and Iterators

7. Files and Data Persistence

8. Testing, Profiling, and Dealing with Exceptions

9. Concurrent Execution

10. Debugging and Troubleshooting

11. Installing the Required Software and Tools

12. Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization

13. Creating API Views

14. Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class

15. Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature

16. Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination

17. Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions

18. Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management

19. Automating Tests

20. Solutions

21. Templates

22. Admin Interface

23. Forms

24. Security

25. Working Asynchronously

26. Creating APIs

27. Production-Ready

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Index

Chapter 19. Automating Tests

In this chapter, we will add some automated testing to our RESTful Web Services and we will execute the tests within a test database. We won't cover all the tests that we should write for our complex RESTful Web Service. However, we will follow the first steps and we will gain an understanding of:

Getting ready for unit testing with pytest
Writing unit tests for a RESTful Web Service
Discovering and running unit tests with pytest
Writing new unit tests to improve tests' code coverage
Running new unit tests

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Authors (3)

Fabrizio Romano

Fabrizio Romano

Fabrizio Romano was born in Italy in 1975. He holds a master's degree in computer science engineering from the University of Padova. He's been working as a professional software developer since 1999. Fabrizio has been working at Sohonet since 2016, where he currently serves as a development manager. In 2020, the Television Academy honored him and his team with an Emmy Award in Engineering Development for advancing remote collaboration.

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Arun Ravindran

Arun Ravindran

Arun Ravindran is an avid speaker and blogger who has been tinkering with Django since 2007 for projects ranging from intranet applications to social networks. He is a long-time open source enthusiast and Python developer. His articles and screencasts have been invaluable to the rapidly growing Django community. He is currently a developer member of the Django Software Foundation. Arun is also a movie buff and loves graphic novels and comics.

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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.

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