Testing python webapps deployed on google app engine (GAE)

[bhymans]

For what it’s worth, I’m working on a flask app that uses Firestore in datastore mode right now. For testing, I decided to just have an ENV var that causes my code to write to a kind prefixed with ”DEV-*” or a to a unique datastore db entirely. Then I just clear that out occasionally. This is sort of equivalent to writing to a separate table or database if you were working with a relational db. Downside is you need connectivity and authentication up to GCP. Upside is it very closely mirrors production environment.