#11 Starting on the creation of an end to end test environment

tests/__init__.py

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
+import pytest
 import os
+from scripts.create_database import run
+from app import app
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
+from flask.testing import FlaskClient
+
 
 # Setup test environment variables
 load_dotenv()
@@ -8,3 +13,15 @@ load_dotenv()
 # Monitor current setting during tests
 old_env = os.environ.get("ENVIRON")
 os.environ["ENVIRON"] = "test"
+
+run()
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def test_client() -> FlaskClient:
+    """ Enables tests to create requests to the web app
+    """
+    os.environ['CONFIG_TYPE'] = 'config.TestingConfig'
+
+    with app.test_client() as testing_client:
+        with app.app_context():
+            yield testing_client