def setUpClass(cls): # start Firefox try: cls.client = webdriver.Firefox() except: pass # skip these tests if the browser could not be started if cls.client: # create the application cls.app = create_app('testing') cls.app_context = cls.app.app_context() cls.app_context.push() # suppress logging to keep unittest output clean import logging logger = logging.getLogger('werkzeug') logger.setLevel("ERROR") # create the database and populate with some fake data db.create_all() Role.insert_roles() User.generate_fake(10) Post.generate_fake(10) # add an administrator user admin_role = Role.query.filter_by(permissions=0xff).first() admin = User(email='*****@*****.**', username='******', password='******', role=admin_role, confirmed=True) db.session.add(admin) db.session.commit() # start the Flask server in a thread threading.Thread(target=cls.app.run).start() # give the server a second to ensure it is up time.sleep(1)