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diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt b/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt index 06e6172724..3db0c38d9a 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt @@ -46,6 +46,17 @@ automatically build a test suite out of those test cases, and run that suite. For more details about :mod:`unittest`, see the Python documentation. +.. admonition:: Where should the tests live? + + The default :djadmin:`startapp` template creates a ``tests.py`` file in the + new application. This might be fine if you only have a few tests, but as + your test suite grows you'll likely want to restructure it into a tests + package so you can split your tests into different submodules such as + ``test_models.py``, ``test_views.py``, ``test_forms.py``, etc. Feel free to + pick whatever organizational scheme you like. + + See also :ref:`testing-reusable-applications`. + .. warning:: If your tests rely on database access such as creating or querying models, @@ -60,7 +71,6 @@ For more details about :mod:`unittest`, see the Python documentation. .. _running-tests: - Running tests ============= |