This is an example of testing a flask app with Splinter.

First, assuming you use virtualenvs, make your virtualenv and get into that.

Then:

$ pip install -r test_requirements.pip
$ ./splinter_tests.py

So app.py defines an App class that has a start method and a stop method on it.

The spinter_tests.py will:

* Create an instance of App
* Call start on the app in a new thread
* Start nosetests in a new thread (programmatically)
* Wait for nosetests to finish
* Call stop on the app

Done.

In a real world app, you'd have unit tests as well and you wouldn't want to be running these when those get run, so you'd seperate them out.

i.e. have a folder structure of:

my_awesome_app/
    <app here>

tests/
    unit/
        <unit tests here>

    splinter/
        <splinter tests here>

tests.py
setup.py
etc

Where tests.py let's you say which type of tests you want to run and start nosetests with the appropiate flags for restricting what tests are run (i.e. the -w flag)

Also, real tests would actually use Splinter properly :p