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Mastering Django: Core

Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

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.
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1. Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Introducing automated testing

What are automated tests?

You have been testing code right throughout this book; maybe without even realizing it. Each time you use the Django shell to see if a function works, or to see what output you get for a given input, you are testing your code. For example, back in Chapter 2, Views and URLconfs, we passed a string to a view that expected an integer to generate a TypeError exception.

Testing is a normal part of application development, however what's different in automated tests is that the testing work is done for you by the system. You create a set of tests once, and then as you make changes to your app, you can check that your code still works as you originally intended, without having to perform time consuming manual testing.

So why create tests?

If creating simple applications like those in this book is the last bit of Django programming you do, then true, you don't need to know how to create automated tests. But, if you wish to become a professional...

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