Welcome to Django Testing Docs’s documentation!

This is a place to help contribute to Django’s docs about testing. It is hosted on Github.

If you want to help contribute, please fork the docs and help out! Hopefully this will make it’s way back into the Django documentation at some point.

If you have any questions, please contact Eric Holscher at eric@ericholscher.com

Contents:

Mostly Complete docs

• Introduction to Python/Django testing: Basic Doctests
  • Where to start
  • Doctests
  • Doctest Considerations
• Introduction to Python/Django testing: Basic Unit Tests
  • Writing your first unit test
  • A couple neat features
• Introduction to Python/Django tests: Fixtures
  • How to create a fixture
  • Testing your fixtures (how meta of us!)
  • Fixtures in Doc tests
  • Django’s Testcase
  • Fixtures in Unit Tests
• Practical Django Testing Examples: Views
  • Basic philosophy
  • Views
  • Do I test Django stuff?
  • Let’s write some tests
  • Getting into context
  • Updating current tests
  • Creating new tests

Unfinished docs

• Testing Django Models
  • Should I use doctests or unit tests?
• Testing Using Mock Objects
  • Which mock library should I use?
• Testing Template Tags
  • Should I use doctests or unit tests?
• Django Testing Philosophy
  • What is the philosophy behind testing in Django?
• Django Tutorial Part 5: Testing

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page