Creating a test
When you created your books app with Django's startapp
command, it created a file called tests.py
in your app directory. This is where any tests for the books app should go. So let's get right to it and write a test:
import datetime from django.utils import timezone from django.test import TestCase from .models import Book class BookMethodTests(TestCase): def test_recent_pub(self): """ recent_publication() should return False for future publication dates. """ futuredate = timezone.now().date() + datetime.timedelta(days=5) future_pub = Book(publication_date=futuredate) self.assertEqual(future_pub.recent_publication(), False)
This should all be pretty straight forward as it's nearly exactly what we did in the Django shell, the only ...
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