Tornado async testing framework with asyncio and using your own server options

server.py

import tornado.web
import tornado.httpserver

def make_app():
    app = tornado.web.Application(
        [(r"/.*", PageHandler)],
        debug=tornado.options.options.serverdebug,
        cookie_secret=config.COOKIE_SECRET,
        compress_response=True)
    return app


def make_server(app, io_loop=None):
    server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer(
        app, io_loop=io_loop, decompress_request=True)
    return server


def start_server(port):
    app = make_app()
    server = make_server(app)
    server.bind(port)
    server.start()

test_me.py

import tornado.platform.asyncio
import asyncio
import tornado.testing

class MyTestCase(tornado.testing.AsyncHTTPTestCase):
    def get_app(self):
        return server.make_app()

    def get_http_server(self):
        return server.make_server(self._app, self.io_loop)

    def get_new_ioloop(self):
        """
        Needed to make sure that I can also run asyncio based callbacks in my tests
        """
        io_loop = tornado.platform.asyncio.AsyncIOLoop()
        asyncio.set_event_loop(io_loop.asyncio_loop)
        return io_loop