Chapter 12. Testing in Django
Introduction to testing
Like all mature programming languages, Django provides inbuilt unit testing capabilities. Unit testing is a software testing process where individual units of a software application are tested to ensure they do what they are expected to do.
Unit testing can be performed at multiple levels-from testing an individual method to see if it returns the right value and how it handles invalid data, up to testing a whole suite of methods to ensure a sequence of user inputs leads to the desired results.
Unit testing is based on four fundamental concepts:
- A test fixture is the setup needed to perform tests. This could include databases, sample datasets and server setup. A test fixture may also include any ...
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