How to spread django unit tests over multiple files?

Question

• I have a python-django application
• I\'m using the unit testing framework
• The tests are arranged in the file \"tests.py\" in the module directory

Answer 1

I think ./manage.py test simply does running all the tests trick (in django >= 1.7).

If your organizing tests is about grouping and cherrypicking and you are fan of nose use django nose:

python manage.py test another.test:TestCase.test_method

If you know nose, then you know how to "wildcard" much nicer over all your files.

PS

It is just a better practice. Hope that helps. The answer was borrowed from here: Running a specific test case in Django when your app has a tests directory

Answer 2

If you have a more complicated setup, or don't want to use from ... import *-type statements, you can define a function called suite in your tests.py (or tests/__init__.py), which returns an instance of unittest.TestSuite.

Answer 3

Note that this approach is no longer valid from Django 1.6, see this post.

You can create tests folder with ___init___.py inside (so that it becomes a package). Then you add your split test .py files there and import all of them in ___init___.py.

I.e: Substitute the test.py file with a module that looks and acts like the file:

Create a tests Directory under the app in question

app
app\models.py
app\views.py
app\tests
app\tests\__init__.py
app\tests\bananas.py
app\tests\apples.py

Import the submodules into app\tests\__init__.py:

from bananas import *
from apples import *

Now you can use ./manage.py as if they were all in a single file:

./manage.py test app.some_test_in_bananas

Answer 4

With Django 2.2 a simple and fairly good solution could be to create a test folder inside an app, and you can put your related test_...py files into, just add __init__.py to the test folder.

Answer 5

http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#organizing-tests talks about splitting the files into modules, and the section right above it has an example.

Answer 6

No need to code anything in init. Just create a subdirectory in your app. Only requirement is not to call it tests* For exemple

app/
app/__init_.py
app/serializers.py
app/testing/
app/testing/__init__.py
app/testing/tests_serializers.py