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# Getting Started
Sanic Testing is the *official* testing client for Sanic. Its primary use is to power the tests of the Sanic project itself. However, it is also meant as an easy-to-use client for getting your API tests up and running quickly.
## Minimum requirements
- **Python**: 3.7+
- **Sanic**: 21.3+
Versions of Sanic older than 21.3 have this module integrated into Sanic itself as `sanic.testing`.
## Install
Sanic Testing can be installed from PyPI:
```
pip install sanic-testing
```
## Basic Usage
As long as the `sanic-testing` package is in the environment, there is nothing you need to do to start using it.
### Writing a sync test
In order to use the test client, you just need to access the property `test_client` on your application instance:
```python
import pytest
from sanic import Sanic, response
@pytest.fixture
def app():
sanic_app = Sanic("TestSanic")
@sanic_app.get("/")
def basic(request):
return response.text("foo")
return sanic_app
def test_basic_test_client(app):
request, response = app.test_client.get("/")
assert request.method.lower() == "get"
assert response.body == b"foo"
assert response.status == 200
```
### Writing an async test
In order to use the async test client in `pytest`, you should install the `pytest-asyncio` plugin.
```
pip install pytest-asyncio
```
You can then create an async test and use the ASGI client:
```python
import pytest
from sanic import Sanic, response
@pytest.fixture
def app():
sanic_app = Sanic(__name__)
@sanic_app.get("/")
def basic(request):
return response.text("foo")
return sanic_app
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_basic_asgi_client(app):
request, response = await app.asgi_client.get("/")
assert request.method.lower() == "get"
assert response.body == b"foo"
assert response.status == 200
```