Decoupled Django: Understand and Build Decoupled Django Architectures for JavaScript Front-ends

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V. GagliardiDecoupled Django https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7144-5_9

9. Testing in a Decoupled World

Valentino Gagliardi¹  

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Colle di Val D’Elsa, Italy

 

This chapter covers:

• Functional testing for JavaScript-heavy interfaces

• Unit testing for the Django REST Framework

In this chapter, we add tests to our application. In the first part, we cover functional testing for user interfaces with Cypress. In the second part, we move to unit testing in Django.

Note

This chapter assumes you are in the repo root decoupled-dj, with the Python virtual environment active.

Introduction to Functional Testing

More often than not, testing in software development is an afterthought, ...