I'm working on writing functional tests for an web application I'm building. I'm fairly new to testing and trying to get to grips with best practices. The application has a moderate amount of complexity, and I'm trying to write a functional test for a process that is part of a bigger process.
*The wider process:* user does A -> user does B (using the DB data generated from A) -> user does C (using the DB data generated from A and B) *The process I want to test:* user does B (using the DB data generated from A) -> generates the data required for C *An example scenario to illustrate:* Let's use the following example: An app that generates email templates for the user A : user has registered and entered their personal data B : user logs in and generates a template email with their name, address in the right places When I'm testing on my local PC, I'm using LiveServerTestCase to create the DB and run a server I can test against with Selenium, and in the setup of my functional test, I create the appropriate initial data using my model code. When I'm testing on staging, I'm using my local PC to interact with the up-and-running live server on the staging server, and not the one generated using LiveServerTestCase. *My questions:* 1) Is it good practice to set up initial data for functional tests using model code (given it's supposed to be a black box test)? 2) During the staging test, how would I populate the DB with the required data? The only way I can think of now is by using Fabric to launch `python manage.py shell` but I feel it might not be the best way -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/82ca423b-85a0-4023-a810-25cd8f44b026%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
