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| author | Harry Moreno <morenoh149@gmail.com> | 2016-06-30 18:10:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-07-01 09:05:40 -0400 |
| commit | 30c65ee8187c7a87d2fc83c5b8966b1ea5e5316b (patch) | |
| tree | fb7a2bedc93b9acfcd1319dab80585aa5def3c72 | |
| parent | 12b4280444b58c94197255655e284e4103fe00a9 (diff) | |
Added parallel test running to "Speeding up the tests" docs.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/testing/overview.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt b/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt index 79de07cad2..6808d5cb30 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt @@ -324,10 +324,18 @@ need to test for success or failure at that level. Speeding up the tests --------------------- -In recent versions of Django, the default password hasher is rather slow by -design. If during your tests you are authenticating many users, you may want -to use a custom settings file and set the :setting:`PASSWORD_HASHERS` setting -to a faster hashing algorithm:: +Running tests in parallel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +As long as your tests are properly isolated, you can run them in parallel to +gain a speed up on multi-core hardware. See :option:`test --parallel`. + +Password hashing +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The default password hasher is rather slow by design. If you're authenticating +many users in your tests, you may want to use a custom settings file and set +the :setting:`PASSWORD_HASHERS` setting to a faster hashing algorithm:: PASSWORD_HASHERS = [ 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.MD5PasswordHasher', |