Thanks, Russ! You're perfectly rigth! I was trying to use TDD in a wrong way. Now I understand I *have* to use a new database. "dumpdata" is what I need.
Thanks for your advice. On Aug 23, 8:53 pm, Russell Keith-Magee <russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Carlos Brum <carlos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello guys, > > > I'm new in Django testing whith django test facilities. > > > I've read "https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/testing/"; but > > couldn't find what i'm looking for. > > > I'm trying to begin TDD development but wanna use my old data. I don't > > wanna have to build up all my database again. I already have data > > there. > > > Is it possible!? > > Maybe, if you *really* try hard. However, if you are genuine about > TDD, you don't actually want to use the "old database". You *must* > have a new database in order to guarantee test conditions. Good tests > have a known entry condition and a known exit condition; the only > practical way to guarantee this (and the approach implemented by > Django) is to have a fresh database configured for every test run. > > However, this doesn't mean that you can't have test data in your new > database. If your live database contains some useful test data, you > can dump that data using the "dumpdata" command. This will produce a > JSON/XML fixture that can be specified in your test case; then, every > time Django runs a test, it will create a clean database and populate > it with your test data. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
