Source: 📖 Test Driven Development with Python ch6 p84

Using LiveServerTestCase for Django functional tests

The problem with using unittest's standard TestCase class for web development functional tests is that it will use the real database by default. We could use setUp() and tearDown() methods to clean up after ourselves to avoid littering the database every time we run a test but it's better to use LiveServerTestCase from django.test as it does the work for us—it creates a temporary database and a test server.

LiveServerTestCase expects to be run by manage.py, and it will run any files whose names begin with test. It will look inside any python packages, so it's important to make sure the directory in which your functional test files are stored has an __init__.py file.

In short, make a functional_tests directory, create an __init__.py file inside it and make your functional test classes inherit from django.test.LiveServerTestCase.

See also:

• Functional tests