Testing

[davidhao3300]

If we could set up tests, we can set up Travis to run some automated tests for us to catch any bugs before merging into master.

[natebrennand]

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if you promise to write tests I would do the setup for you

[alanhdu]

Hm...I'm not sure how to structure our tests.

Ideally, the Flask-side should be a pretty transparent API for querying our database. Results really depend on what's in the database. Not sure how useful tests are for something like this.

I think testing is most needed for the front-end react, but I'm not sure how to write tests for that. Any ideas?

[natebrennand]

A common strategy that I use with Ci is keeping a database dump so that tests can be run against data.
That way the results of API calls are consistent. We're doing some testing in this manner on Density.

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I don't have a ton of experience with frontend testing but I think looking through this would be a good start: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/test-utils.html
Facebook definitely built reacting with testability in mind.

[alanhdu]

Alright. I'll start working on this.