django unit tests without a db

by

You can subclass DjangoTestSuiteRunner and override setup_databases and teardown_databases methods to pass.

Create a new settings file and set TEST_RUNNER to the new class you just created. Then when you’re running your test, specify your new settings file with –settings flag.

Here is what I did:

Create a custom test suit runner similar to this:

from django.test.simple import DjangoTestSuiteRunner

class NoDbTestRunner(DjangoTestSuiteRunner):
  """ A test runner to test without database creation """

  def setup_databases(self, **kwargs):
    """ Override the database creation defined in parent class """
    pass

  def teardown_databases(self, old_config, **kwargs):
    """ Override the database teardown defined in parent class """
    pass

Create a custom settings:

from mysite.settings import *

# Test runner with no database creation
TEST_RUNNER = 'mysite.scripts.testrunner.NoDbTestRunner'

When you’re running your tests, run it like the following with –settings flag set to your new settings file:

python manage.py test myapp --settings="no_db_settings"

UPDATE: April/2018

Since Django 1.8, the module django.test.simple.DjangoTestSuiteRunner were moved to 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner'.

For more info check official doc section about custom test runners.

More Related Contents:

  1. How to Unit test with different settings in Django?
  2. Django: Populate user ID when saving a model
  3. Get model’s fields in Django
  4. Can django’s auth_user.username be varchar(75)? How could that be done?
  5. Manager isn’t available; User has been swapped for ‘pet.Person’
  6. How to get the list of the authenticated users?
  7. Django: How do I add arbitrary html attributes to input fields on a form?
  8. creating my own context processor in django
  9. Get list item dynamically in django templates
  10. Select DISTINCT individual columns in django?
  11. What is the right way to use angular2 http requests with Django CSRF protection?
  12. django admin login suddenly demanding csrf token
  13. How to cURL an Authenticated Django App?
  14. Django – filtering on foreign key properties
  15. CSRF with Django, React+Redux using Axios
  16. Django admin: How to display a field that is marked as editable=False’ in the model?
  17. Example of Django Class-Based DeleteView
  18. Accelerate bulk insert using Django’s ORM?
  19. Django admin DoesNotExist at /admin/
  20. Pass request context to serializer from Viewset in Django Rest Framework
  21. Django: permission denied when trying to access database after restore (migration)
  22. UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character
  23. How can I upload and download files with graphene-django?
  24. Django give Error 500 for all static files like CSS and Images, when DEBUG is False
  25. Django queryset get exact manytomany lookup [duplicate]
  26. What is the best way to store password in database when API call requires sending of password in plain text?
  27. Django / Comet (Push): Least of all evils?
  28. 110: Connection timed out (Nginx/Gunicorn)
  29. Different db for testing in Django?
  30. CSRF verification failed. Request aborted. on django

Leave a Comment