Pytest on Flask: Performing Tests
Explore how to test Flask APIs using pytest by making requests and validating responses. Learn techniques for testing different HTTP methods like GET and POST. Understand how to decode response data and verify response structure with assertions to ensure your API functions correctly.
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Just as before, the testing is done with assertions. The first step in testing the API is to make a request. The response from the request can be converted to a Python object using json.loads. Since the API operates on bytes and Python uses ...