THE DJANGO TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT COOKBOOK

PROJECT SETUP

Let's create a new Django project

$ mkvirtualenv tried_and_tested
$ pip install Django
$ django-admin.py startproject tested

Add a "test_settings.py" file

$ cd tested/tested
$ touch test_settings.py

Install pytest & plugins and create "pytest.ini"

$ pip install pytest
$ pip install pytest-django
$ pip install git+git://github.com/mverteuil/pytest-ipdb.git
$ pip install pytest-cov
$ deactivate
$ workon tried_and_tested

Try it!

$ py.test

Create ".coveragerc" and try it

We are ready to test!

py.test will find all files called "test_*.py"

It will execute all functions called "test_()" on all class that start with "Test"

REFERENCES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ek3VNx_6Q