View integration tests use the same django.test.TestCase class that a unit test does. An integration test will tell us if our project can route the request to the view and return the correct response. An integration test request will have to go through all the middleware and URL routing that a project is configured with. To help us write integration tests, Django provides TestCase.client.
TestCase.client is a utility offered by TestCase to let us send HTTP requests to our project (it can't send external HTTP requests). Django processes these requests normally. client also offers us convenience methods such as client.login(), a way of starting an authenticated session. A TestCase class also resets its client between each test.
Let's write an integration test for QuestionDetailView in django/qanda/tests.py:
from django.test import TestCase from qanda.factories import QuestionFactory from user.factories import UserFactory QUESTION_CREATED_STRFTIME = '%Y-%m-%d...