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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

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Bugs are a time consuming burden during software development. Django's built-in test framework and debugging support help lessen this burden. This book will teach you quick and efficient techniques for using Django and Python tools to eradicate bugs and ensure your Django application works correctly. This book will walk you step by step through development of a complete sample Django application. You will learn how best to test and debug models, views, URL configuration, templates, and template tags. This book will help you integrate with and make use of the rich external environment of test and debugging tools for Python and Django applications. The book starts with a basic overview of testing. It will highlight areas to look out for while testing. You will learn about different kinds of tests available, and the pros and cons of each, and also details of test extensions provided by Django that simplify the task of testing Django applications. You will see an illustration of how external tools that provide even more sophisticated testing features can be integrated into Django's framework. On the debugging front, the book illustrates how to interpret the extensive debugging information provided by Django's debug error pages, and how to utilize logging and other external tools to learn what code is doing.
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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging
Credits
About the Author
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Preface
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Understanding the sample unit test


The unit test is the first test contained in tests.py, which begins:

""" 
This file demonstrates two different styles of tests (one doctest and one unittest). These will both pass when you run "manage.py test". 

Replace these with more appropriate tests for your application. 
"""

from django.test import TestCase 

class SimpleTest(TestCase): 
    def test_basic_addition(self): 
        """ 
        Tests that 1 + 1 always equals 2. 
        """ 
        self.failUnlessEqual(1 + 1, 2) 

The unit test starts by importing TestCase from django.test. The django.test.TestCase class is based on Python's unittest.TestCase, so it provides everything from the underlying Python unittest.TestCase plus features useful for testing Django applications. These Django extensions to unittest.TestCase will be covered in detail in Chapter 3, Testing 1, 2, 3: Basic Unit Testing and Chapter 4, Getting Fancier: Django Unit Test Extensions. The sample unit test here doesn't actually need any of that support, but it does not hurt to base the sample test case on the Django class anyway.

The sample unit test then declares a SimpleTest class based on Django's TestCase, and defines a test method named test_basic_addition within that class. That method contains a single statement:

self.failUnlessEqual(1 + 1, 2)

As you might expect, that statement will cause the test case to report a failure unless the two provided arguments are equal. As coded, we'd expect that test to succeed. We'll verify that later in this chapter, when we get to actually running the tests. But first, let's take a closer look at the sample doctest.

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