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+## Filmatyk - test suite
+
+### API tests
+[`test.api`](test_api.py) performs tests of the `FilmwebAPI` class
+([`filmweb.py`](../filmatyk/filmweb.py)) - fetching and parsing content from Filmweb.
+
+Testing the whole program would typically require logging in to Filmweb.pl,
+which might get cumbersome after a while.
+Therefore, tests are split into two convenient parts: online and offline.
+The basic online interface test is tested first, during which data is fetched
+and cached locally.
+This allows the more detailed tests to run without the need for online connection,
+instead these cached files are used as data source.
+
+#### Basic online test: `TestAPIBasics`
+
+Test class `TestAPIBasics` encapsulates tests of the most fundamental functionalities:
+* logging in to Filmweb.pl,
+* fetching raw HTML data.
+
+However, the most important one is the `fetch_save` test, which not only grabs online data,
+but also **stores it locally** (in `test/assets`), to simplify performing other tests.
+Since this activity prompts for a Filmweb.pl **log-in**, it is disabled by default.
+However, it is **required** to execute this test at least once -
+otherwise other tests will error out.
+To do this:  
+`cd test && python test_api.py all`
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+import functools
+import getpass
+import os
+import sys
+import unittest
+
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
+
+sys.path.append(os.path.join('..', 'filmatyk'))
+import containers
+import filmweb
+
+class TestAPIBasics(unittest.TestCase):
+  """Test basic API funcionality: login & fetching raw HTML data from Filmweb.
+
+  This test is skipped by default, as it requires obtaining a session (and that
+  requires logging in, which would become rather tedious when experimenting).
+  It however produces assets later used by other tests, therefore it is crucial
+  that it be run before any other tests at least once.
+  """
+  noTests = True
+
+  @classmethod
+  def setUpClass(self):
+    self.api = None
+    self.assets_path = 'assets'
+
+  @classmethod
+  def storeAPI(self, api):
+    self.api = api
+
+  def setUp(self):
+    """Ensure the tests are skipped if the flag is set."""
+    if self.noTests:
+      self.skipTest(reason='Basics tests skipped by default!')
+
+  @staticmethod
+  def login_callback(username, password, *args, **kwargs):
+    """Fake callback for FilmwebAPI, to pass instead of a GUI login handler.
+
+    "username" and "password" must be supplied prior to passing to FilmwebAPI
+    by functools.partial (or similar).
+    """
+    isOK, session = filmweb.FilmwebAPI.login(username, password)
+    if not isOK:
+      session = None
+    return (session, username)
+
+  def test_01_login(self):
+    """Attempt to log in to Filmweb. Requires credentials."""
+    username = input('Username: ').strip()
+    password = getpass.getpass().strip()
+    login_callback = functools.partial(
+      self.login_callback,
+      password=password,
+    )
+    api = filmweb.FilmwebAPI(login_callback, username)
+    self.assertIsNotNone(api)
+    api.checkSession()
+    self.assertIsNotNone(api.session)
+    self.storeAPI(api)
+
+  def test_02_fetch_one(self):
+    """Attempt to download a single page of movie ratings from Filmweb."""
+    self.assertIsNotNone(self.api)
+    self.assertIsNotNone(self.api.session)
+    url = self.api.Constants.getUserMoviePage(
+      self.api.username,
+      page=1,
+    )
+    page = self.api._FilmwebAPI__fetchPage(url)
+    text = page.prettify()
+    self.assertIsInstance(text, str)
+    self.assertGreater(len(text), 100 * 2 ** 10)
+
+  def test_03_fetch_save(self):
+    """Attempt to download 3 pages of movie ratings from Filmweb.
+
+    This also stores them as "assets" for other tests.
+    """
+    N_PAGES = 3
+    for i in range(N_PAGES):
+      url = self.api.Constants.getUserMoviePage(self.api.username, page=i+1)
+      page = self.api._FilmwebAPI__fetchPage(url)
+      path = os.path.join('assets', 'movies_{}.html'.format(i+1))
+      with open(path, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as html:
+        text = page.prettify()
+        self.assertGreater(len(text), 100 * 2 ** 10)
+        html.write(text)
+    for i in range(N_PAGES):
+      self.assertIn('movies_{}.html'.format(i+1), os.listdir('assets'))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  try:
+    TestAPIBasics.noTests = (sys.argv[1] != 'all')
+    del sys.argv[1]
+  except IndexError:
+    pass
+  unittest.main()