This is a py.test plugin to help you test your django application.

supports python 2.6-3.2 and django 1.4-1.5

• support pytest-xdist

  currently each node will create its own database (there is not way to run transaction tests synchronously on a single node)

• support for nested setup_module/setup_class

  every module or class is surrounded with savepoint

• lazy savepoints

  savepoints won't be created unless your test function and/or fixture accessing database saving few round-trips

• djangos TransactionTestCase, TestCase and plain unittests TestCase are supported.

pip install git+https://github.com/krya/pydjango#egg=pydjango

First of all you need to make this plugin aware of your django settings. To do so you have few options:

• make an environment variable:

  export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=myproject.settings
  

• pass settings path to py.test invocation:

  py.test --django-settings=myproject.settings
  

• make a pytest.ini file in root folder with following content:

  [pytest]
  DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=myproject.settings
  

• and finally you can set up your settings in python code. Just make a conftest.py file in root folder with:

  from django.conf import settings
  
  def pytest_configure():
      settings.configure(DATABASES={'default':{'ENGINE':'django.db.backends.sqlite3'}})
  

Now can run tests with py.test conmmand.

• client

  Client instance

• rf

  RequestFactory instance

• test_user

  user instace with username test

• admin_user

  superuser instance with username admin

• anon_user

  AnonymousUser instance

• settings

  django's settings module

• uclient

  a client instance with logged in test_user

• aclient

  a client instance with logged in admin_user

both uclient and aclient are logged in using django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend.

There are also imported apps available as fixtures named by subpackage name. So for instance if you have django.contrib.auth in your INSTALLED_APPS you can use that package in your tests without importing it in every test function:

def test_smth(auth):
    assert auth.models.User.objects.count() == 0

You can even use model's name defined in your project as a fixture:

def test_my_model(User):
    assert User.objects.count() == 0

• --create-db

  Force database creation. Destroys db if it exists from previous run

• --skip-trans

  skip all transactional tests (LiveServerTestCase or TransactionTestCase)

• --migrate

  runs syncdb and south migrations (may be slow in big projects so let user decide). does nothing when --create-db used