generate common tests for django

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I'm developing sites on django I'm think what most problems may be found by using smoke coverage tests method. But (in most cases) write the tests to check response code is 200 for every app, every view, and every url is so bored (e.g. when you are develop few sites parallel). I have a question: How can I automate this process, may be exist some complete solutions to generate some common tests for django.

Thanks!

If you use sublimetext you can make custom snippets, to generate those tests. More about snippets here http://courses.tutsplus.com/courses/perfect-workflow-in-sublime-text-2 — Łukasz Staniszewski, Jul 24 '14 at 09:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 03 '15 at 14:08

Best practices:

If it can break, it should be tested. This includes models, views, forms, templates, validators, and so forth.
Each test should generally only test one function.
Keep it simple. You do not want to have to write tests on top of other tests. Run tests whenever code is PULLed or PUSHed from the repo and in the staging environment before PUSHing to production.
When upgrading to a newer version of Django:

-upgrade locally,

-run your test suite,

-fix bugs,

-PUSH to the repo and staging, and then

-test again in staging before shipping the code.

https://realpython.com/blog/python/testing-in-django-part-1-best-practices-and-examples/

Django provides a small set of tools that come in handy when writing tests.

The test client The test client is a Python class that acts as a dummy Web browser, allowing you to test your views and interact with your Django-powered application programmatically. Some of the things you can do with the test client are:

Simulate GET and POST requests on a URL and observe the response – everything from low-level HTTP (result headers and status codes) to page content.
See the chain of redirects (if any) and check the URL and status code at each step.
Test that a given request is rendered by a given Django template, with a template context that contains certain values.

Overview and a quick example

To use the test client, instantiate django.test.Client and retrieve Web pages:

from django.test import Client
c = Client()
response = c.post('/login/', {'username': 'john', 'password': 'smith'})
response.status_code

200

response = c.get('/customer/details/')
response.content

'<!DOCTYPE html...'

As this example suggests, you can instantiate Client from within a session of the Python interactive interpreter.

Testing responses The get() and post() methods both return a Response object. This Response object is not the same as the HttpResponse object returned by Django views; the test response object has some additional data useful for test code to verify.

Making requests Use the django.test.Client class to make requests.

class Client(enforce_csrf_checks=False, **defaults)

Exceptions If you point the test client at a view that raises an exception, that exception will be visible in the test case. You can then use a standard try ... except block or assertRaises() to test for exceptions.

Provided test case classes Normal Python unit test classes extend a base class of unittest.TestCase. Django provides a few extensions of this base class: Hierarchy of Django unit testing classes (TestCase subclasses) enter image description here Hierarchy of Django unit testing classes

For detailed information and more examples visit https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/testing/tools/

Thanks for your answer. But I write a lot of tests every day. And I perfectly understand how to writing cool tests. I'm tried to find solution to automatically generate common test cases. But at this point in time this question is not actual to me. Because I changed my job and not use django now. — alexey_efimov, Mar 05 '15 at 06:28

generate common tests for django

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