Practical Unit Testing in Django
summary
Focuses on concrete unit testing techniques for Django: build a minimal view instance with test instance from RequestFactory, call individual methods directly, and assert behavior rather than the whole stack. Shows mocking and dummy subclasses to isolate class based views, mixins, forms and inlineformset logic, patching super calls and using autospec to assert super called once. Demonstrates deleting mock attributes, mocking ORM chains like filter all count, and unit testing form clean() and save() paths to get high coverage.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to testing
- 1:34What is unit testing
- 5:08Testing class-based views
- 8:21Testing forms and methods
- 14:23Testing mixins
- 17:00Advanced mocking techniques
- 18:58Testing template tags
- 19:38Summary of unit testing
- 20:41Q&A and conclusion
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