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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


We have now completed the implementation of survey voting, and the in-depth coverage of Django debug pages. In this chapter, we:

  • Set out to replace the placeholder view and template for display of an active Survey with a real implementation

  • Made some typical mistakes during implementation, which led to us being presented with five different Django debug pages

  • On encountering the first debug page, learned about all of the different sections of debug pages and what information is included in each

  • For each debug page encountered, used the information presented to locate and correct the coding error

In the next chapter, we will proceed to learn techniques for gathering debug information even when the code is not causing a debug page to be displayed.