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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By : Michael Dinder
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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By: Michael Dinder

Overview of this book

Django is a powerful framework but choosing the right add-ons that match the scale and scope of your enterprise projects can be tricky. This book will help you explore the multifarious options available for enterprise Django development. Countless organizations are already using Django and more migrating to it, unleashing the power of Python with many different packages and dependencies, including AI technologies. This practical guide will help you understand practices, blueprints, and design decisions to put Django to work the way you want it to. You’ll learn various ways in which data can be rendered onto a page and discover the power of Django for large-scale production applications. Starting with the basics of getting an enterprise project up and running, you'll get to grips with maintaining the project throughout its lifecycle while learning what the Django application lifecycle is. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build and deploy a Django project to the web and implement various components into the site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Starting a Project
5
Part 2 – Django Components
10
Part 3 – Advanced Django Components

Chapter 9: Django Testing

This chapter is dedicated to testing and debugging a Django project. Django has a wide range of test classes built into its framework that are used to write automated test scripts. As we build each app and/or component of a project, we can run one command at any time to ensure that every component still works as it should. This is great for regression testing, which means testing a new or changed component, making sure that it does not affect the intended behavior of existing components or the entire system as a whole. For most of what we will cover in this chapter, we do not need to install any third-party packages. The last thing we will cover is the Django Debug Toolbar (DjDT), which does require us to install a third-party package to use.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Writing automated test scripts
  • Creating unit test cases
  • Testing view classes and their get and post methods
  • Testing view classes that require...