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Migrating Django Test Fixtures Using South

2009 June 11

The Problem

Migrating test fixtures is one of the biggest pains of testing. If you create your tests too early, then change your schema, you have to go back and touch all your old test fixtures. This discourages people from writing tests until their app is relatively 'stable'. As we ...

Introduction to Python/Django tests: Fixtures

2008 November 05

In the first two posts of this series, we talked about how to get the basic infrastructure for your tests up and running. You should have a file with doc tests and one with unit tests. They should be linked into your django project with an `init.py ...

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