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2009 November 17
At work we have to manage a ton of Django based sites. Just for our World Company sites, we have over 50 different settings files, and this doesn't take into account the sites that we host for other clients. At this size it becomes basically impossible to test each ...
2009 November 13
As part of the summer of code 2009, Django test coverage has been developed. I mentored Kevin Kusabik, who developed the code. It is hopefully going to be merged in 1.2, but there are still a few issues to be worked out in the implementation ...
2009 November 10
Updated at the bottom of the post.
Warning: This is a bit of a brain dump.
In the software industry there is a lot of back and forth about the value of a college degree. This post won't go into that too much, I just want to talk about ...
2009 October 16
Update As of Django 1.2, Django ships with default test settings for sqlite. They require two databases to be defined, because of Multidb. More information at Django advent and in the docs
Alex Gaynor ...
2009 September 08
There are the slides to my Token Testing Talk from Djangocon. I'm hoping the videos will be posted soon, but I think that it went well. There were a lot of good questions, and I need to put some recap posts up, but for now here is a copy ...
2009 June 29
Setuptools comes with a way to run the tests on your application. This allows the user of your software to download it, and run python setup.py test and check to see if the tests in your application pass. This is really useful ...
2009 June 11
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 ...
2009 May 05
Just got off the stage at EuroDjangocon, which was my first real talk in front of the Django Community. I hope that people enjoyed it, and that it was informational. Here are the slides to my talk in [PDF Form](http://media.ericholscher.com/slides/Testing ...
2009 April 20
Today is the day that Google has announced the accepted projects for the Summer of Code. Django has 6 spots this year, with a bunch of exciting projects. I am lucky enough to be mentoring Kevin Kubasik with his project "Upgrade the Awesomness Quotient of the ...
2009 April 16
A lot of the Django code we use at work has a special case for AJAX. It has been a kind of a pain to test, because the test client by default doesn't use AJAX. Luckily the [is_ajax](http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/http/init.py ...
2009 March 08
The ice is starting to thaw and I'm making my way out from under my first winter in Kansas. You know that spring is coming because the conference season is starting to bloom. I'm looking forward to a bunch of conferences that will be upcoming in the new ...
2009 January 15
As of Changeset 9756, Django's test suite is A HELL OF A LOT FASTER. This was one of the 1.1 Features and probably the one I was looking forward to the most. Django Unit Tests ...
2008 November 27
A couple posts ago, I talked about how we should have conventions for the names that we use in Django Template Blocks. Today I will be talking about the value that is gained from this kind of structure.
2008 November 13
I was having a conversation with Jacob tonight about testing in Django. He has shot down testmaker for being too specific for Django core, which I almost agree with, given my grandiose plans for it before the month is out ...
2008 November 11
This is the fourth in a series of Django testing posts. Check out the others in my Testing series if you want to read more. Today is the start of a sub-series, which is practical examples. This series will be going through each of the different kinds of ...
2008 November 10
Today I'm going to be releasing a new project, called django-test-utils. It's rather empty at the moment, but it does have one cool feature. That is my [Django Crawler](http://github.com/ericholscher/django-test-utils/tree/master/test_utils/management/commands/crawlurls.py ...
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 ...
2008 November 04
Last post we talked about how to set up and use doc tests inside of Django. Today, in the second post of the series, we'll be talking about how to use the other testing framework that comes with Python, unittest. unittest is a xUnit type of testing system (JUnit ...
2008 November 02
This is the first in a series of blog posts and screencasts that will walk you through how to test your Django application. These posts will focus more on how to get things done in Django, but note that a lot of the content is applicable to pure python as ...
2008 August 14
Today I ran into a fun problem when writing template tags at work. (I'll write another post later on the fun-ness that is testing of template tags :) In ellington we have some templatetags that test for the current time of day. ifmorning, ifnight and so on. These template tags ...
2008 July 26
Okay, Well I have been hacking away at django-testmaker for the last couple of days based on some ideas from the community. It has gotten a lot better, so here is another blog post showing what's new.
First let me just say how awesome the Django community is, and ...
2008 July 23
At work lately we've been writing a bunch of tests for all of the work we've been doing. This is generally a good thing (tm). I was getting tired of manually having to write all of the code to test the views ...
Django Inspect: A generic introspection API for Django models
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The role of designers in the Django community
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Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Documentation
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Correct way to handle default model fields.
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