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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

Tracking down unreported problems


Sometimes when researching a problem no matching reports will turn up. How best to proceed then likely depends on how sure you are that the problem you are encountering is a bug in Django. If you are really sure the problem lies in Django, you can proceed directly to opening a new ticket to report it. If you are not so sure, it is best to get some feedback from the community first. The following sections will describe where to ask questions, present some tips on asking good questions, and describe how to open a new ticket.

Where to ask questions

Clicking on the Community link on any Django website page brings up the following:

The left side of this page provides links to articles in blogs written by people who discuss Django. While reading such entries is a good way to learn about the community of people using Django, it is the right side of this page that we are interested in right now. Here we see links to ways to interact directly with other members of...