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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Introduction to testing


Like all mature programming languages, Django provides inbuilt unit testing capabilities. Unit testing is a software testing process where individual units of a software application are tested to ensure they do what they are expected to do.

Unit testing can be performed at multiple levels-from testing an individual method to see if it returns the right value and how it handles invalid data, up to testing a whole suite of methods to ensure a sequence of user inputs leads to the desired results.

Unit testing is based on four fundamental concepts:

  1. A test fixture is the setup needed to perform tests. This could include databases, sample datasets and server setup. A test fixture may also include any clean-up actions required after tests have been performed.

  2. A test case is the basic unit of testing. A test case checks whether a given set of inputs leads to an expected set of results.

  3. A test suite is a number of test cases, or other test suites, that are executed as a group.

  4. A...