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• Testing Django Views Without Using the Test Client

  Jul 21, 2015

  • python
  • django
  • testing
  The normal way to test Django views is via the test client. The test client fakes being a wsgi server and actually makes an HTTP request through all of Django’s request routing machinery. There are a number of reasons why this isn’t an ideal appro...

• Testing using a mocked HTTP server

  Oct 15, 2009

  • django
  • mock
  • testing
  Recently I got some tests working for my django-lifestream project. The lifestream imports data from RSS/Atom feeds so there isn’t a good way to run tests without creating a test HTTP server to serve up your RSS/Atom. The tests start up an http s...