How to apply integration tests (rather than unit tests) to a Flask RESTful API

Question

[As per https://stackoverflow.com/a/46369945/1021819, the title should refer to integration tests rather than unit tests]

Suppose I\'d like to test the foll

Answer 1

Flask provides a test_client you can use in your tests:

from source.api import app
from unittest import TestCase

class TestIntegrations(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.app = app.test_client()

    def test_thing(self):
        response = self.app.get('/')
        assert 

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