Typically while developing CTFd, developers use the provided serve.py script and access CTFd at http://localhost:4000.

Very often you will need to generate testing data so that you can exercise CTFd's behavior. The included populate.py script will insert randomized testing data into the CTFd database.

To run CTFd's tests you should install the testing modules with:

pip install -r development.txt

Then run nose with the following from root project directory:

nosetests

To run a single test you can run something similar to:

nosetests tests.test_utils:test_ctf_started

Although there isn't much debugging information in the tests you can see print messages if you run:

nosetests -s

In addition, if you create a pull request, Travis will validate that your code is PEP8 compliant with pep8 --ignore E501,E712 CTFd/ tests/.

If you need to wipe CTFd completely, the simplest way is often to just delete the database (CTFd/ctfd.db by default) and remove the contents of the CTFd/uploads folder.