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| author | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-01-24 15:36:10 -0500 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-01-25 06:52:44 -0500 |
| commit | 41e059de7ccc25307b02de8b7b346b6735673f0a (patch) | |
| tree | 6fca9e74a6d81541b1c5d51131fc6d4c1cf9ebda | |
| parent | 5e44348ad79c3a45dc59b9ed92a35d8d190d48e1 (diff) | |
[1.9.x] Fixed #26132 -- Discouraged use of TransactionTestCase.fixtures.
Backport of b0b45f9a8373f47e96ef6c22d254c984d3b6b3c0 from master
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/testing/tools.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt index 2b432211ef..fe6eab7838 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt @@ -1057,9 +1057,9 @@ Fixture loading .. attribute:: TransactionTestCase.fixtures A test case for a database-backed website isn't much use if there isn't any -data in the database. To make it easy to put test data into the database, -Django's custom ``TransactionTestCase`` class provides a way of loading -**fixtures**. +data in the database. Tests are more readable and it's more maintainable to +create objects using the ORM, for example in :meth:`TestCase.setUpTestData`, +however, you can also use fixtures. A fixture is a collection of data that Django knows how to import into a database. For example, if your site has user accounts, you might set up a |