You can use `fixtures` for this purpose! You can have several of them to have exactly the data you need for a test.
Have a look there: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/#django.test.TestCase.fixtures Cheers, Thomas 2012/10/4 Daniele Procida <[email protected]> > I have started writing my first tests, for a project that has become > pretty large (several thousand lines of source code). > > What needs the most testing - where most of the bugs or incorrect appear > emerge - are the very complex interactions between objects in the system. > > To me, the intuitive way of testing would be this: > > * to set up all the objects, in effect creating a complete working database > * run all the tests on this database > > That's pretty much the way I test things without automated tests: is the > output of the system, running a huge database of objects, correct? > > However, I keep reading that I should isolate all my tests. So I have had > a go at creating tests that do that, but it can mean setting up a dozen > objects sometimes for a single tiny test, then doing exactly the same thing > with one small difference for another test. > > Often I have to run save() on these objects, because otherwise tests that > depend on many-to-many and other database relations won't work. > > That seems very inefficient, to create a succession of complex and > nearly-identical test conditions for dozens if not hundreds of tests. > > I'd appreciate any advice. > > Daniele > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
