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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

You're reading from   Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging Building rigorously tested and bug-free Django applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197566
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Django Testing Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Does This Code Work? Doctests in Depth 3. Testing 1, 2, 3: Basic Unit Testing 4. Getting Fancier: Django Unit Test Extensions 5. Filling in the Blanks: Integrating Django and Other Test Tools 6. Django Debugging Overview 7. When the Wheels Fall Off: Understanding a Django Debug Page 8. When Problems Hide: Getting More Information 9. When You Don't Even Know What to Log: Using Debuggers 10. When All Else Fails: Getting Outside Help 11. When it's Time to Go Live: Moving to Production Index

Additional test support


The tests that we have developed in this chapter provide a reasonably broad overview of how to use the test support provided by Django's TestCase and test Client class. However, the examples neither cover every detail of what these classes provide, nor every detail of the additional data available in the annotated response objects returned by the Client. In this section, we briefly mention some additional features of TestCase, Client, and the additional data available with response objects. We will not develop examples that use all of these features; they are mentioned here so that if you encounter a need for this type of support, you will know that it exists. The Django documentation provides full details on all of these topics.

Supporting additional HTTP methods

Our example tests only needed to use the HTTP GET and POST methods. The test Client class also provides methods to issue HTTP HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, and DELETE requests. These methods are named head, options...

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