Generated integration tests by running real traffic through httrace

[imLostify]

Hey 👋 I came across this repo while looking for well-structured DRF ecommerce APIs. I wanted to share something that might save you a lot of time.

I ran the API locally and used Httrace — a tool that captures real HTTP traffic and auto-generates pytest integration tests from it. No test-writing, no mocking, no setup overhead.

Here's what it generated for GET /api/products/{id}/ from live traffic:

# Generated by Httrace — 5 interactions captured
# Service: django-ecommerce-demo

def test_get_api_products_1_200(client):
    response = client.get("/api/products/1/")

    assert response.status_code == 200
    assert response.elapsed.total_seconds() * 1000 < 7  # 3× captured latency
    body = response.json()
    assert body["category"] == "Electronics"
    assert body["price"] == "1299.99"
    assert body["quantity"] == 10

def test_get_api_products_999_404(client):
    response = client.get("/api/products/999/")
    assert response.status_code == 404

It also generated tests for /api/products/categories/, /api/user/login/, /api/user/register/, and /api/user/orders/ — 9 files total from a single traffic capture session.

The conftest is auto-generated too, with a session-scoped httpx.Client and a stub auth_headers fixture.

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How it works — 3 lines of setup:

# wsgi.py
from httrace import WsgiHttraceCaptureMiddleware
application = WsgiHttraceCaptureMiddleware(
    get_wsgi_application(),
    api_key="ht_...",
    service="django-ecommerce-api",
)

Then run your server normally (gunicorn works great), fire some requests, and run:

httrace generate --service django-ecommerce-api --format pytest

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Since this repo doesn't have any tests yet, this could be a quick way to get solid baseline coverage without the usual boilerplate. Happy to put together a PR if that'd be useful.

Best regards
Arik