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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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Django Tests: setUpTestData on Postgres throws: "Duplicate key value violates unique constraint"

I am running into a database issue in my unit tests. I think it has something to do with the way I am using TestCase and setUpData. When I try to set up my test data with certain values, the tests throw the following…
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Loading SQL dump before running Django tests

I have a fairly complex Django project which makes it hard/impossible to use fixtures for loading data. What I would like to do is to load a database dump from the production database server after all tables has bene created by the testrunner and…
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Django LiveServerTestCase: User created in in setUpClass method not available in test_method?

I am using Django 1.4's LiveServerTestCase for Selenium testing and am having trouble with the setUpClass class method. As far as I understand MembershipTests.setUpClass is run once before the unit tests are run. I've put code to add a user to the…
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Difference between django-webtest and selenium

I have been reading about testing in django. One thing that was recommended was use of django-webtest for functional testing. I found a decent article here that teaches how to go about functional testing in selenium using python. But people have…
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How do I execute an arbitrary script in the context of my Django project?

Sometimes I want to execute a file in the context of my Django project, just as if I were using the shell, but with the convenience of using a text editor. This is mainly to try something out, or quickly prototype some functionality before putting…
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How to use --failfast in django test command line?

I want to use --failfast so that if my one test fail, remaining all other test gets executed. Do I need to create new test runner or I can use it in command line ?
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Specifying Readonly access for Django.db connection object

I have a series of integration-level tests that are being run as a management command in my Django project. These tests are verifying the integrity of a large amount of weather data ingested from external sources into my database. Because I have…
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Django Testing: Does --keepdb reset changes made during tests?

According to the Django docs regarding tests, the --keepdb flag will preserve the the test database for future runs. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-option---keepdb Just to be clear, will any changes made to the…
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Assert that two lists of objects are equal in django testing

Is there a way to check that two lists of objects are equal in django tests. lets say I have some model: class Tag(models.Model): slug = models.SlugField(max_length=50, unique=True) def __unicode__(self): return self.slug and I run…
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Django REST Framework - multiple models / APIs?

We use Django to build web-app backend, providing RESTful API for Ember app. So (evolutionally) we started with the following simple structure: project root | |-app1 / models.py .... no views.py | |-app2 / models.py .... no views.py | |-app3 /…
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Can i access the response context of a view tested without the test client?

I have a function which i call from a unittest. From setting some debug traces i know the function worked like a charm and has all the values correctly prepared for return. This is what my testcode looks like (see where my ipdb.set_trace() is…
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Create a simple password for unittest user using PASSWORD_HASHERS

Until django 1.2.5 i could use the following code to create a user for testing and then log it in: class TestSomeLoginRequiredView(TestCase): urls = 'sonloop.tests.test_urls' def setUp(self): self.user =…
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How to correctly use assertRaises in Django

I have the following validation function in my model: @classmethod def validate_kind(cls, kind): if kind == 'test': raise ValidationError("Invalid question kind") which I am trying to test as follows: w = Model.objects.get(id=1)…
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How to generate a file upload (test) request with Django REST Framework's APIRequestFactory?

I have developed an API (Python 3.5, Django 1.10, DRF 3.4.2) that uploads a video file to my media path when I request it from my UI. That part is working fine. I try to write a test for this feature but cannot get it to run…
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How to test url in django

I would like to test my url in django but I got error message. here are my codes: urls.py url(r'^create/(?P[0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/$', views.create, name='create'), test.py from django.test import TestCase, Client client = Client() def…
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