Tests required.

[Animesh-Ghosh]

None of the apps have any tests written. We NEED tests ASAP.

[Bhupesh-V]

Just having a headsup - we would be using the unittest framework

[Animesh-Ghosh]

I suggest using Django's testing APIs. That way we can perform isolated database transactions in our tests.

[Bhupesh-V]

just committed some initial tests, I will try to list all the things to test here.

1. Template Names :heavy_check_mark:
2. URLs :x:
3. Page Status Codes :heavy_check_mark:
4. Context Data :x:
5. Models :x:

[Animesh-Ghosh]

What about the API? Can we test them as well?

[Bhupesh-V]

What about the API? Can we test them as well?

Yes we can, testing them would be similar to testing views

[hstandeffer]

Hi, I am participating in Hacktoberfest and would like to help on this project. I don't have much experience with testing in Python, but would love to learn and contribute.

[Animesh-Ghosh]

@hstandeffer you can hack around with the taggie app. When you're comfortable with that module, then create a tests directory inside the taggie directory itself.

Use the unittest module. Here's a video tutorial for you to get started with the unittest module.

Test out the functionality of the module, such as whether the functions give expected output for a specific input.

[Animesh-Ghosh]

@hstandeffer do this to run tests:

1. Create a local branch.
2. Update settings.py as follows:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.environ['STATIC_ROOT']

# STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join('static'),] # additional directories to collectstatic from, shouldn't contain STATIC_ROOT
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage'

3. Update requirements.txt as follows (this applies only for development, not for production):

python-dotenv>=0.10.0
django-import-export>=1.0.0
whitenoise==3.3.1
gunicorn==19.7.1

4. Add static/ to .gitignore:

*.log
local_settings.py
db.sqlite3
static/

# Flask stuff:
instance/

5. Create a directory by the name 'static' and then run python manage.py collectstatic.
6. Run tests with python manage.py test.

Do let me know if any problems arise.

[hstandeffer]

I've followed these steps and it is throwing a key error for the line in your second step of the email for the ['STATIC_ROOT']

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:32 PM MaDDogx [email protected] wrote:

@hstandeffer https://github.com/hstandeffer do this to run tests:

1. Create a local branch.
2. Update settings.py as follows:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'STATIC_ROOT = os.environ['STATIC_ROOT']

STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join('static'),] # additional directories to collectstatic from, shouldn't contain STATIC_ROOTSTATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage'

1. Update requirements.txt as follows (this applies only for development, not for production):

python-dotenv>=0.10.0 django-import-export>=1.0.0 whitenoise==3.3.1 gunicorn==19.7.1

1. Add static/ to .gitignore.
2. Create a directory by the name 'static' and then run python manage.py collectstatic.
3. Run tests with python manage.py test.

Do let me know if any problems arise.

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[Animesh-Ghosh]

Did you setup the .env files properly?

The STATIC_ROOT virtual environment variable needs to be an absolute path to the /static/ directory inside the tutorialdb root directory.

So, STATIC_ROOT needs to be set to C:\USER\path\to\tutorialdb\static\ inside .env for Windows.