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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

Summary


We have now come to the end of discussing Django's unit test extensions to support testing web applications. In this chapter, we:

  • Learned how to organize unit tests into separate files instead of placing everything into a single tests.py file

  • Began to develop views for the survey application, and learned how to use Django's unit test extensions to test these views

  • Saw how to customize the admin interface by providing custom validation for one of our models, and learned how to test that admin customization

  • Briefly discussed some unit test extensions provided by Django that we did not encounter in any of our example tests

  • Learned when it might be necessary to use TransactionTestCase instead of TestCase for a test

While we have covered a lot of ground in learning how to test a Django application, there are many aspects to testing a web application that we have not even touched on yet. Some of these are more appropriately tested using tools other than Django itself. The next chapter will...

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