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Thanks to Preston Timmons for the bulk of the work on the patch, especially updating Django's own test suite to comply with the requirements of the new runner. Thanks also to Jannis Leidel and Mahdi Yusuf for earlier work on the patch and the discovery runner. Refs #11077, #17032, and #18670.
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Testing in Django
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=================
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.. toctree::
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:hidden:
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overview
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advanced
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Automated testing is an extremely useful bug-killing tool for the modern
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Web developer. You can use a collection of tests -- a **test suite** -- to
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solve, or avoid, a number of problems:
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* When you're writing new code, you can use tests to validate your code
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works as expected.
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* When you're refactoring or modifying old code, you can use tests to
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ensure your changes haven't affected your application's behavior
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unexpectedly.
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Testing a Web application is a complex task, because a Web application is made
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of several layers of logic -- from HTTP-level request handling, to form
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validation and processing, to template rendering. With Django's test-execution
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framework and assorted utilities, you can simulate requests, insert test data,
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inspect your application's output and generally verify your code is doing what
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it should be doing.
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The best part is, it's really easy.
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Where to go from here
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=====================
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The preferred way to write tests in Django is using the :mod:`unittest` module
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built in to the Python standard library. This is covered in detail in the
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:doc:`overview` document.
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You can also use any *other* Python test framework; Django provides an API and
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tools for that kind of integration. They are described in the
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:ref:`other-testing-frameworks` section of :doc:`advanced`.
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