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| author | Chris Wedgwood <wedgemail@gmail.com> | 2022-09-29 04:58:45 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-09-29 05:58:45 +0200 |
| commit | 468d06109778e3656229ac28c9019ea7246f9b79 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c63a19b279f993cdad4fcfa1a69935b63b3a084 /docs | |
| parent | 0f5b11eca0ba199501941fa244b276aaa10353c8 (diff) | |
Fixed #33026 -- Mentioned RequestFactory in testing tools docs.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/testing/tools.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt index bdbe756a90..1f235d920b 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt @@ -34,12 +34,15 @@ short: * Use Django's test client to establish that the correct template is being rendered and that the template is passed the correct context data. +* Use :class:`~django.test.RequestFactory` to test view functions directly, + bypassing the routing and middleware layers. + * Use in-browser frameworks like Selenium_ to test *rendered* HTML and the *behavior* of web pages, namely JavaScript functionality. Django also provides special support for those frameworks; see the section on :class:`~django.test.LiveServerTestCase` for more details. -A comprehensive test suite should use a combination of both test types. +A comprehensive test suite should use a combination of all of these test types. Overview and a quick example ---------------------------- |