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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Python information and short questions megathread.
 
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Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

 How do I get started writing tests for things in Django?

I've never done testing in code, and my workflow tends to be:

1) Start server
2) Edit views.py or forms.py
3) Refresh browser, test data


I think I could do this better. How?

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Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

bitprophet posted:

Er. Hate to be all RTFM on you but did you look at the documentation? Go to the Django documentation page and it's the 5th line down under the Reference header :)

Granted, comprehensively testing web apps is a bit tougher because of their nature, but you can still get a lot done with a simple set of unit tests testing object creation/editing/deletion, making sure all your URLs result in HTTP 200s and aren't breaking, and putting doctests on any non-builtin model methods you write (e.g. if you do something like get_sum_of_child_numbers(), do a doctest to ensure it works correctly). So on and so forth.

Haha drat I missed it while looking over the documentation page. Thanks.

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Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

duck monster posted:

I just made this

xml-from-dictionary function()

Have fun.

Also the order it puts elements is MAGICAL just like harry potter or a unicorn.

That's neat, is this a question? I've read the last two pages and I'm not sure. Dictionaries/hashes don't store ordering information and need sorting for keys or definitions.

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