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Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. This tag is about writing and running tests for your Django apps.

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Testing overview

Testing a Web application is a complex task, because a Web application is made of several layers of logic – from HTTP-level request handling, to form validation and processing, to template rendering. With Django’s test-execution framework and assorted utilities, you can simulate requests, insert test data, inspect your application’s output and generally verify your code is doing what it should be doing.

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How to test a Django model with pytest?

I am getting started with pytest. I have configured pytest, anyway I couldn't found a resource on Django specific testing with pytest. How do I test a model with pytest_django? I have already asked a question on unittesting, how do I efficiently…
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Models inside tests - Django 1.7 issue

I'm trying to port my project to use Django 1.7. Everything is fine except 1 thing. Models inside tests folders. Django 1.7 new migrations run migrate command internally. Before syncdb was ran. That means if a model is not included in migrations -…
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Django test client does not log in

I am attempting to log in the test client using its built in login function. I am trying to unit test views and need to log in to test some of them. I have been trying to do this for too long and need help. A few notes: create_user() does create a…
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How to add authentication token in header of `APIClient` in `django rest_framework test`

I am using oauth2_provider for my rest_framework. I am trying to write test case for my api. I have obtained an access token. But I am not able to authenticate user using access token in APIClient I am looking to get this curl command work with…
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What Django TEST_RUNNER supports xunit xml and logging capture?

I'm attempting to set up a new django project, and I've configured TEST_RUNNER in settings.py to be django_nose.NoseTestSuiteRunner. I chose this test runner because it seems to be the only one I can find that has the following features: writes…
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Django and postgresql testing schema

I'm using PostgreSQL 9.3 and Django 1.7.4 with psycopg2 2.5.4 The DBA, asked us to create a schema for our application instead of using public. We defined the schema, and we had to add the 'OPTIONS': { 'options': '-c…
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Mock Stripe Methods in Python for testing

So I am trying to mock all the stripe web hooks in the method so that I can write the Unit test for it. I am using the mock library for mocking the stripe methods. Here is the method I am trying to mock: class AddCardView(APIView): """ * Add card…
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Using coverage, how do I test this line?

I have a simple test: class ModelTests(TestCase): def test_method(self): instance = Activity(title="Test") self.assertEqual(instance.get_approved_member_count(), 0) My problem is that coverage still shows…
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Setting a session variable in django tests

This works def test_access_to_home_with_location(self): self.client.login(username=self.user.get_username(), password='pass') session = self.client.session session['location'] = [42] session.save() response =…
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Django- Factory boy failing for no apparent reason in just one factory

The code: class StockFactory(UniqueObjectsFactory): FACTORY_FOR = Stock FACTORY_DJANGO_GET_OR_CREATE = ('name', 'market') market = factory.SubFactory(MarketFactory) symbol = FuzzyAttribute(lambda:…
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Generate in-memory image for Django testing

Is it possible to generate an in-memory image for testing purposes? Here is my current code: def test_issue_add_post(self): url = reverse('issues_issue_add') image = 'cover.jpg' data = { 'title': 'Flying Cars', …
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Django test fixtures and content types

I'm using django's ContentType foreign key in my model, and I'm using it in the fixtures for unit tests. Therefore, I have to hard-code content_type_id in my fixture, but django sometimes initializes it to a different value and thus my tests…
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Setup postgres in Github Actions for Django

I'm currently working on a website right now on Django. On my computer, I am running it on Docker with a postgres database. Here's the docker-compose file I have: version: '3' services: db: image: postgres environment: …
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Django test Client submitting a form with a POST request

How can I submit a POST request with Django test Client, such that I include form data in it? In particular, I would like to have something like (inspired by How should I write tests for Forms in Django?): from django.tests import TestCase class…
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How to prepopulate test database by necessary data?

I need to do some unit tests in my Django project. The problem is that almost every use case depends on prepopulated database objects. For example, I want to create a product and test, if there were all pre_save signals successful. from…
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