Define a fixture that restarts flask app for each test run

app/test/conftest.py

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import pytest
 import sqlite3
+import time
 from selenium import webdriver
+from pathlib import Path
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def URL():
@@ -12,7 +14,7 @@ def driver():
     return webdriver.Edge()  # uncomment this line if you wish to run the test on your laptop
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+@pytest.fixture
 def restore_sqlite_database():
     '''
     Automatically restore SQLite database file app/db/wordfreqapp.db
@@ -24,3 +26,9 @@ def restore_sqlite_database():
         con.executescript('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS article;')
         con.executescript(open('../static/wordfreqapp.sql', encoding='utf8').read())
     con.close()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def restart_englishpal(restore_sqlite_database):
+    (Path(__file__).parent / '../main.py').touch()
+    time.sleep(1)