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SacGax
SacGax

Reputation: 157

Integration test for Application that interacts with web

How do I write integration test for an application that interacts with website ? More specifically I have an application that interacts with Flickr website.During the OAuth authorization process flickr website display's the verifier code which the user has to copy and paste into my application. Now how do I automate this process so that I can test the application automatically.I am using swing for GUI.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 100

Answers (1)

CtrlF
CtrlF

Reputation: 674

Writing automation that depends on external services can be tricky. For something like this, I would advise you to set up a mock service, or some other way of using canned responses.

I've had success doing this a couple of ways:

  • Writing an external mock service, using something like bottle.py. This has the advantage of requiring little to no modification to your existing codebase, but obviously requires a bit of work to ensure that this external process is managed correctly as part of your test suite, especially if you are running tests in a CI environment.

  • Using dependency injection, you can write mock network components, and swap the real network components for your mock components for testing. I recommend this approach, but it will require a bit of modification to your codebase.

Upvotes: 2

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