Tests with responses

[hfaran]

Testing against the actual Piazza SaaS is likely more trouble than it's worth; such tests could be set up to tell us when piazza-api breaks against any future changes to the Piazza API, although.

That being said, testing against a static mock API using responses seems like a much better idea for the time being. This won't tell us when Piazza API changes break piazza-api against Piazza, but it will tell us when bad refactoring breaks piazza-api against the mockup.

[michaelmior]

An easier solution might be using vcrpy. You can just set up a bunch of test cases using requests as you normally would and the responses from the API will be automatically saved and used when tests are rerun in the future.

[hfaran]

Thanks for the suggestion! I've heard of vcrpy but never used it; this sounds like a good opportunity to try it out though.