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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Chapter 11. When it's Time to Go Live: Moving to Production

The final topic we will cover on the subject of testing and debugging Django applications is the move to production. When the application code is all written, fully tested and debugged, it is time to set up a production web server and make the application accessible to real users. Since the application has been fully tested and debugged during development, this should be straightforward, right? Unfortunately, not always. There are a number of differences between a production web server environment and the Django development server environment. These differences can cause problems during the move to production. In this chapter, we will see what some of these differences are, what types of problems they can cause, and how to overcome them. Specifically, we will:

  • Configure an Apache web server with mod_wsgi to run the sample marketr project.

  • Encounter a number of issues during development of the Apache configuration. For each, we will...