How to test 500.html error page in django development env?

Question

I am using Django for a project and is already in production.

In the production environment 500.html is rendered whenever a server error occurs.

How do I tes

Answer 1

urls.py

handler500 = 'project.apps.core.views.handler500'
handler404 = 'project.apps.core.views.handler404'

views.py

from django.template.loader import get_template
from django.template import Context
from django.http import HttpResponseServerError, HttpResponseNotFound


def handler500(request, template_name='500.html'):
    t = get_template(template_name)
    ctx = Context({})
    return HttpResponseServerError(t.render(ctx))


def handler404(request, template_name='404.html'):
    t = get_template(template_name)
    ctx = Context({})
    return HttpResponseNotFound(t.render(ctx))

tests.py

from django.test import TestCase
from django.test.client import RequestFactory

from project import urls

from ..views import handler404, handler500


class TestErrorPages(TestCase):

    def test_error_handlers(self):
        self.assertTrue(urls.handler404.endswith('.handler404'))
        self.assertTrue(urls.handler500.endswith('.handler500'))
        factory = RequestFactory()
        request = factory.get('/')
        response = handler404(request)
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 404)
        self.assertIn('404 Not Found!!', unicode(response))
        response = handler500(request)
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 500)
        self.assertIn('500 Internal Server Error', unicode(response))