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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

Unit tests for the Survey save override method


Recall in the previous chapter that we ultimately implemented four individual tests of the Survey save override function:

  • A straightforward test of the added capability, which verifies that if closes is not specified when a Survey is created, it is auto-set to a week after opens

  • A test that verifies that this auto-set operation is not performed if closes is explicitly specified during creation

  • A test that verifies that closes is only auto-set if its value is missing during initial creation, not while saving an existing instance

  • A test that verifies that the save override function does not introduce an unexpected exception in the error case where neither opens nor closes is specified during creation

To implement these as unit tests instead of doctests, create a TestCase within the suvery/tests.py file, replacing the sample SimpleTest. Within the new TestCase class, define each individual test as a separate test method in that TestCase, like so:

import...
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