========== Unit tests ========== Django comes with a test suite of its own, in the ``tests`` directory of the code base. It's our policy to make sure all tests pass at all times. The tests cover: * Models and the database API (``tests/modeltests``), * Everything else in core Django code (``tests/regressiontests``), * :ref:`contrib-apps` (``django/contrib//tests``). We appreciate any and all contributions to the test suite! The Django tests all use the testing infrastructure that ships with Django for testing applications. See :doc:`Testing Django applications ` for an explanation of how to write new tests. .. _running-unit-tests: Running the unit tests ---------------------- Quickstart ~~~~~~~~~~ Running the tests requires a Django settings module that defines the databases to use. To make it easy to get started, Django provides a sample settings module that uses the SQLite database. To run the tests with this sample ``settings`` module, ``cd`` into the Django ``tests/`` directory and run: .. code-block:: bash ./runtests.py --settings=test_sqlite If you get an ``ImportError: No module named django.contrib`` error, you need to add your install of Django to your ``PYTHONPATH``. For more details on how to do this, read :ref:`pointing-python-at-the-new-django-version`. Using another ``settings`` module ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The included settings module allows you to run the test suite using SQLite. If you want to test behavior using a different database (and if you're proposing patches for Django, it's a good idea to test across databases), you may need to define your own settings file. To run the tests with different settings, ``cd`` to the ``tests/`` directory and type: .. code-block:: bash ./runtests.py --settings=path.to.django.settings The :setting:`DATABASES` setting in this test settings module needs to define two databases: * A ``default`` database. This database should use the backend that you want to use for primary testing * A database with the alias ``other``. The ``other`` database is used to establish that queries can be directed to different databases. As a result, this database can use any backend you want. It doesn't need to use the same backend as the ``default`` database (although it can use the same backend if you want to). If you're using a backend that isn't SQLite, you will need to provide other details for each database: * The :setting:`USER` option for each of your databases needs to specify an existing user account for the database. * The :setting:`PASSWORD` option needs to provide the password for the :setting:`USER` that has been specified. * The :setting:`NAME` option must be the name of an existing database to which the given user has permission to connect. The unit tests will not touch this database; the test runner creates a new database whose name is :setting:`NAME` prefixed with ``test_``, and this test database is deleted when the tests are finished. This means your user account needs permission to execute ``CREATE DATABASE``. You will also need to ensure that your database uses UTF-8 as the default character set. If your database server doesn't use UTF-8 as a default charset, you will need to include a value for :setting:`TEST_CHARSET` in the settings dictionary for the applicable database. Running only some of the tests ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Django's entire test suite takes a while to run, and running every single test could be redundant if, say, you just added a test to Django that you want to run quickly without running everything else. You can run a subset of the unit tests by appending the names of the test modules to ``runtests.py`` on the command line. For example, if you'd like to run tests only for generic relations and internationalization, type: .. code-block:: bash ./runtests.py --settings=path.to.settings generic_relations i18n How do you find out the names of individual tests? Look in ``tests/modeltests`` and ``tests/regressiontests`` — each directory name there is the name of a test. Contrib app names are also valid test names. If you just want to run a particular class of tests, you can specify a list of paths to individual test classes. For example, to run the ``TranslationTests`` of the ``i18n`` module, type: .. code-block:: bash ./runtests.py --settings=path.to.settings i18n.TranslationTests Going beyond that, you can specify an individual test method like this: .. code-block:: bash ./runtests.py --settings=path.to.settings i18n.TranslationTests.test_lazy_objects Running all the tests ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you want to run the full suite of tests, you'll need to install a number of dependencies: * PyYAML_ * Markdown_ * Textile_ * Docutils_ * setuptools_ * memcached_, plus a :ref:`supported Python binding ` * gettext_ (:ref:`gettext_on_windows`) If you want to test the memcached cache backend, you'll also need to define a :setting:`CACHES` setting that points at your memcached instance. Each of these dependencies is optional. If you're missing any of them, the associated tests will be skipped. .. _PyYAML: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML .. _Markdown: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown/1.7 .. _Textile: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/textile .. _docutils: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/docutils/0.4 .. _setuptools: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/ .. _memcached: http://www.danga.com/memcached/ .. _gettext: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html .. _contrib-apps: Contrib apps ------------ Tests for contrib apps go in their respective directories under ``django/contrib``, in a ``tests.py`` file. You can split the tests over multiple modules by using a ``tests`` directory in the normal Python way. For the tests to be found, a ``models.py`` file must exist, even if it's empty. If you have URLs that need to be mapped, put them in ``tests/urls.py``. To run tests for just one contrib app (e.g. ``markup``), use the same method as above:: ./runtests.py --settings=settings markup