Mastering Django: Core

Testing tools

Django provides a set of tools that come in handy when writing tests.

The test client

The test client is a Python class that acts as a dummy web browser, allowing you to test your views and interact with your Django-powered application programmatically. Some of the things you can do with the test client are:

• Simulate GET and POST requests on a URL and observe the response-everything from low-level HTTP (result headers and status codes) to page content.
• See the chain of redirects (if any) and check the URL and status code at each step.
• Test that a given request is rendered by a given Django template, with a template context that contains certain values.

Note that the test client is not intended to be a replacement for Selenium (for more ...