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Less system tests, and more unit tests

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start by running the test suite through tox and inventorying which tests depend on the database, web server, or authentication service. Define separate unit and integration-test groups, then verify that the unit tests run without those services and that the full tox suite still covers the integration tests.

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Description

refactoring

The tests take way too long to run via tox. Tests should be fast to run so people actually run them. This is because a lot of the tests are system tests with dependencies on the database, web server, authentication service etc. Investigate and attempt to resolve this by breaking the tests into distinct unit and integration tests.

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Python
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