--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/test/test_liveserver.py	Tue Apr 20 14:16:58 2021 -0400
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+import shutil, errno, pytest
+
+from roundup.cgi.wsgi_handler import RequestDispatcher
+from .wsgi_liveserver import LiveServerTestCase
+from . import db_test_base
+
+try:
+    import requests
+    skip_requests = lambda func, *args, **kwargs: func
+except ImportError:
+    from .pytest_patcher import mark_class
+    skip_requests = mark_class(pytest.mark.skip(
+        reason='Skipping liveserver tests: requests library not available'))
+    
+@skip_requests
+class SimpleTest(LiveServerTestCase):
+    port_range = (9001, 9010)  # default is (8080, 8090)
+
+    dirname = '_test_instance'
+    backend = 'anydbm'
+    
+    @classmethod
+    def setup_class(cls):
+        '''All test in this class use the same roundup instance.
+           This instance persists across all tests.
+           Create the tracker dir here so that it is ready for the
+           create_app() method to be called.
+        '''
+        # tests in this class.
+        # set up and open a tracker
+        cls.instance = db_test_base.setupTracker(cls.dirname, cls.backend)
+
+        # open the database
+        cls.db = cls.instance.open('admin')
+
+        cls.db.commit()
+        cls.db.close()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def teardown_class(cls):
+        '''Close the database and delete the tracker directory
+           now that the app should be exiting.
+        '''
+        if cls.db:
+            cls.db.close()
+        try:
+            shutil.rmtree(cls.dirname)
+        except OSError as error:
+            if error.errno not in (errno.ENOENT, errno.ESRCH): raise
+
+    def create_app(self):
+        '''The wsgi app to start'''
+        return RequestDispatcher(self.dirname)
+
+    def test_start_page(self):
+        """ simple test that verifies that the server can serve a start page.
+        """
+        f = requests.get(self.url_base())
+        self.assertTrue(b'Roundup' in f.content)
+        self.assertTrue(b'Creator' in f.content)