A testing approach for celery/postgresql using pytest

Testing is needed to demostrate to you or the PO that the code is in a working state. Whenever new changes are made the test verify that previous functionality is still working and that new functionality is working as expected.

This project demostrates a testing approach for celery/postgresql project using pytest as testing framework but also to control the database state.

The tech stack

• celery
• pytest
• pytest-celery
• pytest-postgresql

project layout

• src - the source code
• tests - the tests
• conftest.py - pytest configuration file
• pyproject.toml - project configuration file (includes dependencies and tasks)

Note: The project is using poetry to manage dependencies and tasks.

Installation

$> poetry install --no-root

Running the tests

$> poetry run poe test