issues: 502355384
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| 502355384 | MDU6SXNzdWU1MDIzNTUzODQ= | 580 | Testing utilities should be available to plugins | 9599 | closed | 0 | 5 | 2019-10-03T23:58:26Z | 2020-02-28T07:58:46Z | 2020-02-28T07:58:46Z | OWNER | I'm trying to write a plugin at the moment ([datasette-atom](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-atom)) which needs to run unit tests against a full in-memory Datasette instance, in the same way that the Datasette test suite itself works. I got it working by creating copies of the [TestClient and TestResponse classes](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/a314b761866d250c16f1ff6dd682010cf4181eb4/tests/fixtures.py#L22-L96) within the plugin itself: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-atom/commit/c0e3bd9556d7b31f253a8bf666d42205cd24f4fc#diff-33337525d2d877f7cc7f33737bfd2d7b I had to do this because those classes are in the `tests/` directory within Datasette, so they don't get included in the package that ships to PyPI. It would be better if these classes were included in the main package in a way that made it easy for plugins to reuse them to write their own tests. | 107914493 | issue | {"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/580/reactions", "total_count": 0, "+1": 0, "-1": 0, "laugh": 0, "hooray": 0, "confused": 0, "heart": 0, "rocket": 0, "eyes": 0} | completed |