625811 - Stop using admin user for testing specific permissions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Code Quality, task, P3)

Description

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

The admin user has every permission, even those that aren't created. This can hide a typo in a permission string, for example.

We should have a better way of testing for specific permissions. Erik suggested having something like:
user = log_in_as_user_with_permission('permission_string')

We could probably add this method to our base TestCase.

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Or subclassing the Client and replacing TestCase.client.

self.client.login()

self.client.login_with_permission('perm', username=, password=)

Comment 2

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

This got fixed by removing our use of fixtures.