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PyTest Django Fullstack

I built this book in the summer of 2024.

Late November 2024, the following series was published on YouTube by the excellent BugBytes Kyle for Net Ninja.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfiCALrGE14&list=PL4cUxeGkcC9ic9O6xDW2d1qMp3rMOb0Nu

I have ceased developing this book as I believe any additonal material I might add is covered by this series.

Hope you find this useful along with the video series!

Purpose of this book

The original book 'PyTest Cookbook', https://pytest-cookbook.com/, had a section for Django Testing. It is worth using this as an additional resource as it contains many useful section on testing with PyTest and Toolbox utilities.

Based on the scope of testing for Django, it seemed advantageous to create its own book.

Testing will be done with PyTest as the runner and using PyTest tests. However, some tests will be based on the UnitTestCase built into Django.

Contents

Review of Django Docs

We will go through each part of the Django Testing section in the docs to extract the useful components for our PyTest suite. The pytest-django library uses all the Django test features so we do not lose any functionality.

PyTest

We move into using PyTest and cover:

  • Set up of PyTest Django
  • Overview of included apps
  • Explore the core tests for models, views and forms
  • Dive deeper into SQL Schema tests for the models
  • Test models, views and forms
  • Test miscellaneous - Middleware, Template Tags, Admin Area etc
  • Use Playwright for API testing
  • Use Playwright for End To End testing
  • Use of Factories and Mocks to support our testing

The PyTest Framework will be useable 'out of the box' with over a 100 templated tests for your use.