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+skips: ['B101']
diff --git a/test/test_generalized.py b/test/test_generalized.py
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+from mock import patch
+import pytest
+
+from app.scrapers.generalized import Scraper
+
+
+@patch('requests.models.Response')
+@patch('app.scrapers.generalized.requests.get')
+def test_get_page(mock_request_get, mock_response):
+    mock_request_get.return_value = mock_response
+    mock_response.url = "Mock Url"
+    response = Scraper().get_page("dummy_query")
+    assert response == mock_response
+    expected_payload = {'q': 'dummy_query', '': ''}
+    expected_headers = {
+        'User-Agent': (
+            'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) '
+            'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 '
+            'Safari/537.36'
+        )
+    }
+    mock_request_get.assert_called_with(
+        '', headers=expected_headers, params=expected_payload)
+
+
+def test_parse_response():
+    with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError):
+        Scraper().parse_response(None)
+
+
+def test_next_start():
+    dummy_prev_results = ['dummy_value']
+    if not Scraper().next_start(3, dummy_prev_results) == 4:
+        raise AssertionError()
+
+
+@patch('app.scrapers.generalized.Scraper.parse_response')
+@patch('app.scrapers.generalized.Scraper.get_page')
+@patch('requests.models.Response')
+def test_search(mock_resp, mock_get_page, mock_parse_resp):
+    mock_get_page.return_value = mock_resp
+    mock_resp.text = "Mock response"
+    expected_resp = [{
+        'title': 'mock_title',
+        'link': 'mock_url'
+    }]
+    # assuming parse_response is being implemented by
+    # classes inheriting Scraper. Thus, returning dummy
+    # response instead of raising NotImplementedError
+    mock_parse_resp.return_value = expected_resp
+    resp = Scraper().search('dummy_query', 1)
+    assert resp == expected_resp
+
+
+@patch('app.scrapers.generalized.Scraper.get_page')
+@patch('requests.models.Response')
+def test_search_parsed_response_none(mock_resp, mock_get):
+    mock_get.return_value = mock_resp
+    mock_resp.text = "Mock Response"
+    with patch('app.scrapers.generalized.Scraper.parse_response',
+               return_value=None):
+        resp = Scraper().search('dummy_query', 1)
+        assert resp == []
+
+
+@patch('app.scrapers.generalized.requests.get')
+@patch('app.scrapers.generalized.Scraper.parse_response')
+@patch('requests.models.Response')
+def test_search_without_count(mock_resp, mock_parse_resp, mock_get):
+    mock_get.return_value = mock_resp
+    mock_resp.text = 'mock response'
+    expected_resp = [{
+        'title': 'mock_title',
+        'link': 'mock_url'
+    }]
+    expected_payload = {'q': 'dummy_query'}
+    expected_headers = {
+        'User-Agent': (
+            'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) '
+            'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 '
+            'Safari/537.36'
+        )
+    }
+    mock_parse_resp.return_value = expected_resp
+    resp = Scraper().search_without_count('dummy_query')
+    assert resp == expected_resp
+    mock_get.assert_called_with(
+        '', headers=expected_headers, params=expected_payload)