Mastering Django: Core

Using different testing frameworks

Clearly, unittest is not the only Python testing framework. While Django doesn't provide explicit support for alternative frameworks, it does provide a way to invoke tests constructed for an alternative framework as if they were normal Django tests.

When you run ./manage.py test, Django looks at the TEST_RUNNER setting to determine what to do. By default, TEST_RUNNER points to django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner. This class defines the default Django testing behavior. This behavior involves:

1. Performing global pre-test setup.
2. Looking for tests in any of the following file the in current directory whose name matches the pattern test*.py.
3. Creating the test databases.
4. Running migrate to install models and initial data into ...