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@@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ transaction to provide isolation::
self.assertEqual(cat.speak(), 'The cat says "meow"')
When you :ref:`run your tests <running-tests>`, the default behavior of the
-test utility is to find all the test cases (that is, subclasses of
+test utility is to find all the test case classes (that is, subclasses of
:class:`unittest.TestCase`) in any file whose name begins with ``test``,
-automatically build a test suite out of those test cases, and run that suite.
+automatically build a test suite out of those test case classes, and run that
+suite.
For more details about :mod:`unittest`, see the Python documentation.
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ path to a package, module, ``TestCase`` subclass, or test method. For instance:
# Run all the tests found within the 'animals' package
$ ./manage.py test animals
- # Run just one test case
+ # Run just one test case class
$ ./manage.py test animals.tests.AnimalTestCase
# Run just one test method
@@ -223,7 +224,7 @@ the Django test runner reorders tests in the following way:
* All :class:`~django.test.TestCase` subclasses are run first.
-* Then, all other Django-based tests (test cases based on
+* Then, all other Django-based tests (test case classes based on
:class:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase`, including
:class:`~django.test.TransactionTestCase`) are run with no particular
ordering guaranteed nor enforced among them.