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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

Summary


This brings us to the end of discussing the testing of Django applications. In this chapter, we focused on how to fill in any gaps of testing functions within Django by integrating with other test tools. It is impossible to cover the specifics of integrating with every tool out there, but we learned the general mechanisms available and discussed a couple of examples in detail. This provides a solid foundation for understanding how to accomplish the task in general.

As Django continues to develop, such gaps may become fewer, but it is unlikely that Django will ever be able to provide everything that everyone wants in terms of testing support. In some cases, Python's class inheritance structure and unit test extension mechanisms allow for straightforward integration of other test tools into Django test cases. In other cases, this is not sufficient. Thus, it is helpful that Django also provides hooks for adding additional functionality. In this chapter, we:

  • Learned what hooks Django provides...