django-test-plus 2.6.0

django-test-plus provides useful additions to Django's default TestCase

django-test-plus

Useful additions to Django's default TestCase from REVSYS

Rationale

Let's face it, writing tests isn't always fun. Part of the reason for that is all of the boilerplate you end up writing. django-test-plus is an attempt to cut down on some of that when writing Django tests. We guarantee it will increase the time before you get carpal tunnel by at least 3 weeks!

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Support

• Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14, including the 3.14 free-threaded build (3.14t).

• Django 4.2 LTS, 5.1, 5.2 LTS, 6.0, and 6.1.

Installation

$ pip install django-test-plus

Usage

Have your tests inherit from test_plus.test.TestCase rather than the normal django.test.TestCase:

from test_plus.test import TestCase

class MyViewTests(TestCase):
    ...

That is enough to get rolling. Here is a taste of what you get — reversing URLs, checking status codes, and inspecting context without the boilerplate:

class MyViewTests(TestCase):

    def test_the_view(self):
        # GET a named URL, with args or kwargs if it needs them
        self.get('my-url-name')
        self.response_200()

        # The last response and its context are stored for you
        self.assertInContext('some-key')
        self.assertResponseContains('<p>Hello, World!</p>')

        # POST data, then check the redirect
        self.post('my-form-view', data={'name': 'Test'})
        self.response_302()

    def test_auth(self):
        user = self.make_user('u1')

        self.assertLoginRequired('my-protected-view')

        with self.login(user):
            self.get_check_200('my-protected-view')

    def test_query_count(self):
        # 200 OK in under 50 queries, in one line
        self.assertGoodView('my-url-name')

You are encouraged to create your own sub-class for your project so you can add project-specific helper methods:

# myproject/test.py
from test_plus.test import TestCase as PlusTestCase

class TestCase(PlusTestCase):
    pass

There is a pytest fixture too — ask for tp and you get the same helpers:

def test_url_reverse(tp):
    assert tp.reverse('api') == '/api/'

Documentation

Full documentation, including the complete method reference, is available at django-test-plus.readthedocs.org.

• Usage — including pytest fixtures and testing DRF views
• Methods — requests, status code assertions, response and context helpers, make_user
• Authentication helpers — assertLoginRequired and the login() context
• Ensuring low query counts — assertNumQueriesLessThan and assertGoodView
• Testing class-based views
• Disable logging

Development

To work on django-test-plus itself, clone this repository and run the following command:

$ pip install -e .
$ pip install -e .[test]

To run all tests:

$ nox

NOTE: You will also need to ensure that the test_project directory, located at the root of this repo, is in your virtualenv's path.

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