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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Django Design Patterns and Best Practices Industry-standard web development techniques and solutions using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831345
Length 282 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Arun Ravindran Arun Ravindran
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Django and Patterns 2. Application Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Models 4. Views and URLs 5. Templates 6. Admin Interface 7. Forms 8. Working Asynchronously 9. Creating APIs 10. Dealing with Legacy Code 11. Testing and Debugging 12. Security 13. Production-Ready 14. Python 2 Versus Python 3 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing a test case


There are different kinds of tests. However, as a minimum, a programmer needs to know unit tests since they have to be able to write them. Unit testing checks the smallest testable part of an application. Integration testing checks whether these parts work well with each other.

The word unit is the key term here. Just test one unit at a time. Let's take a look at a simple example of a test case:

# tests.py 
from django.test import TestCase 
from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve 
from .views import HomeView 
class HomePageOpenTestCase(TestCase): 
    def test_home_page_resolves(self): 
        view = resolve('/') 
        self.assertEqual(view.func.__name__, 
                         HomeView.as_view().__name__) 

This is a simple test that checks whether the user is correctly taken to the home page view when they visit the root of our website's domain. Like most good tests, it has a long and self-descriptive name. The test simply uses Django's resolve() function to...

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