🧪 Django Testing Boilerplate

A practical, minimal Django project designed to showcase and demonstrate best practices for testing web applications built with the Django framework. This repository provides a ready-to-run environment with various types of tests configured to help developers understand, implement, and maintain high-quality testing in their own Django projects.

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✨ Features

• Comprehensive Test Suite: Examples of Unit Tests (for models, utility functions), Integration Tests (for views, serializers, forms), and Functional Tests (via Django's TestCase and TestClient).
• Modern Tooling: Pre-configured for use with modern testing libraries like pytest (or the standard Django unittest runner).
• Data Generation: Utilization of libraries like factory-boy for creating realistic and reusable test data fixtures.
• API Testing: Demonstrations of testing API endpoints, including authentication and permission checks (if Django REST Framework is used).
• CI/CD Ready: Configured for easy integration into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines.

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🛠️ Technologies Used

Technology	Purpose
Python	The core programming language.
Django	The web framework used.
pytest (Optional)	A powerful testing framework.
factory-boy	Generating model instances and data fixtures.

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🚀 Getting Started

Follow these steps to get a local copy of the project up and running.

Prerequisites

1. Python 3.x
2. pip (Python package installer)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone [https://github.com/amirbigg/django-testing.git](https://github.com/amirbigg/django-testing.git)
   cd django-testing

2. Create and activate a virtual environment (recommended):

   # For Linux/macOS
   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   
   # For Windows
   python -m venv venv
   .\venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run migrations:

   python manage.py migrate

5. Run the development server (optional):

   python manage.py runserver

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📝 Running Tests

You can run the entire test suite using the standard Django test runner or, if configured, pytest.

Using the Default Django Test Runner

python manage.py test