test.SimpleTestCase

class SimpleTestCase [source]

A subclass of unittest.TestCase that adds this functionality:

• Some useful assertions like:
  • Checking that a callable raises a certain exception.
  • Testing form field rendering and error treatment.
  • Testing HTML responses for the presence/lack of a given fragment.
  • Verifying that a template has/hasn't been used to generate a given response content.
  • Verifying a HTTP redirect is performed by the app.
  • Robustly testing two HTML fragments for equality/inequality or containment.
  • Robustly testing two XML fragments for equality/inequality.
  • Robustly testing two JSON fragments for equality.
• The ability to run tests with modified settings.
• Using the client Client.

If your tests make any database queries, use subclasses TransactionTestCase or TestCase.