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ZProger 09a0e383e0 feat: idle cash alert and category hierarchy (subcategories)
Two of the four ideas picked from the Maybe/Sure feature audit:

- Idle cash: a 5th proactive alert flags a depository account (checking/
  savings/cash) sitting at or above a configurable balance with no
  transaction touching it for a configurable number of days.
- Category hierarchy: categories can now have one level of subcategories
  (Groceries -> Alcohol). Dashboard/report aggregations roll a
  subcategory's spending into its parent's slice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 02:27:46 +03:00
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Backend tests

Real integration tests against a real Postgres database — a dedicated aurum_test database created fresh, migrated, and dropped again on every run. They never touch the real aurum database or its data: the app's lifespan startup (which seeds against the real DB) is never triggered, and every route's DB dependency is overridden to point at aurum_test instead.

Running

The stack must already be up (docker compose up -d). Test dependencies aren't baked into the production image, so install them once per container lifetime, then run pytest inside the running backend container — it's the only place with network access to Postgres:

docker compose exec backend pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
docker compose exec backend pytest -v

Re-run just pytest -v for subsequent runs; the pip install only needs repeating after a container restart/rebuild.

Adding a test

  • Use the client fixture (an httpx.AsyncClient wired to the app) to hit the API the same way the frontend does — prefer this over reaching into services/models directly, so tests keep verifying the actual contract.
  • account_id and categories fixtures give you the same default account/categories a real fresh install seeds.
  • Every table is truncated and reseeded before each test (see conftest.py::_clean_database), so tests don't need to worry about leftover state or guess at IDs from a previous test.