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Testing in Django
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=================
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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 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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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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overview
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tools
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advanced
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