diff --git a/django/test/mocks.py b/django/test/mocks.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..94048a2a2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/django/test/mocks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+from django.test import Client
+from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIRequest
+
+class RequestFactory(Client):
+    """
+    Class that lets you create mock Request objects for use in testing.
+
+    Usage:
+
+    rf = RequestFactory()
+    get_request = rf.get('/hello/')
+    post_request = rf.post('/submit/', {'foo': 'bar'})
+
+    This class re-uses the django.test.client.Client interface, docs here:
+    http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/testing/#the-test-client
+
+    Once you have a request object you can pass it to any view function,
+    just as if that view had been hooked up using a URLconf.
+
+    """
+    def request(self, **request):
+        """
+        Similar to parent class, but returns the request object as soon as it
+        has created it.
+        """
+        environ = {
+            'HTTP_COOKIE': self.cookies,
+            'PATH_INFO': '/',
+            'QUERY_STRING': '',
+            'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET',
+            'SCRIPT_NAME': '',
+            'SERVER_NAME': 'testserver',
+            'SERVER_PORT': 80,
+            'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1',
+        }
+        environ.update(self.defaults)
+        environ.update(request)
+        return WSGIRequest(environ)
diff --git a/django/test/testcases.py b/django/test/testcases.py
index bda0a35655..e8a4c1f873 100644
--- a/django/test/testcases.py
+++ b/django/test/testcases.py
@@ -243,12 +243,12 @@ class TransactionTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             try:
                 app_mods = cache.app_models[app_label]
                 for tm in self.test_models:
-                    print "importing %s " % tm
+                    #print "importing %s " % tm
                     im = importlib.import_module(tm)
                     #cache.app_store[im] = len(cache.app_store)
-                    print "finding model classes"
+                    #print "finding model classes"
                     mod_classes =  [f for f in im.__dict__.values() if hasattr(f,'__bases__') and issubclass(f,models.Model)]
-                    print "Found models %s " % mod_classes
+                    #print "Found models %s " % mod_classes
                     for mc in mod_classes:
                         print "Adding %s to AppCache" % mc
                         app_mods[mc.__name__.lower()] = mc
@@ -329,12 +329,12 @@ class TransactionTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
                app_mods = cache.app_models[app_label]
                print app_mods
                for tm in self.test_models:
-                   print "importing %s " % tm
+                   #print "importing %s " % tm
                    im = importlib.import_module(tm)
                    #cache.app_store[im] = len(cache.app_store)
-                   print "finding model classes"
+                   #print "finding model classes"
                    mod_classes =  [f for f in im.__dict__.values() if hasattr(f,'__bases__') and issubclass(f,models.Model)]
-                   print "Found models %s " % mod_classes
+                   #print "Found models %s " % mod_classes
                    for mc in mod_classes:
                        print "Deleting %s from AppCache" % mc
                        del app_mods[mc.__name__.lower()]