diff --git a/README b/README index 6d2ce90b65c..e92b51ec6f2 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -37,3 +37,9 @@ To contribute to Django: * Check out http://www.djangoproject.com/community/ for information about getting involved. + +To run Django's test suite: + + * Follow the instructions in the "Unit tests" section of + docs/internals/contributing.txt, published online at + http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/#running-the-unit-tests diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing.txt b/docs/internals/contributing.txt index 15f7a2d9007..a42770b2051 100644 --- a/docs/internals/contributing.txt +++ b/docs/internals/contributing.txt @@ -889,14 +889,41 @@ for an explanation of how to write new tests. Running the unit tests ---------------------- -To run the tests, ``cd`` to the ``tests/`` directory and type: +Quickstart +~~~~~~~~~~ + +Running the tests requires a Django settings module that defines the +databases to use. To make it easy to get started. Django provides a +sample settings module that uses the SQLite database. To run the tests +with this sample ``settings`` module, ``cd`` into the Django +``tests/`` directory and run: + +.. code-block:: bash + + ./runtests.py --settings=test_sqlite + +If you get an ``ImportError: No module named django.contrib`` error, +you need to add your install of Django to your ``PYTHONPATH``. For +more details on how to do this, read `Pointing Python at the new +Django version`_ below. + +Using another ``settings`` module +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The included settings module allows you to run the test suite using +SQLite. If you want to test behavior using a different database (and +if you're proposing patches for Django, it's a good idea to test +across databases), you may need to define your own settings file. + +To run the tests with different settings, ``cd`` to the ``tests/`` directory +and type: .. code-block:: bash ./runtests.py --settings=path.to.django.settings -Yes, the unit tests need a settings module, but only for database connection -info. Your :setting:`DATABASES` setting needs to define two databases: +The :setting:`DATABASES` setting in this test settings module needs to define +two databases: * A ``default`` database. This database should use the backend that you want to use for primary testing @@ -907,22 +934,8 @@ info. Your :setting:`DATABASES` setting needs to define two databases: want. It doesn't need to use the same backend as the ``default`` database (although it can use the same backend if you want to). -As a convenience, a minimal settings file, using two in memory SQLite -databases, is included in your Django distribution. It is called -``test_sqlite``, and is included in the ``tests`` directory. This allows you to -get started running the tests against the sqlite database without doing -anything on your filesystem. However it should be noted that running against -other database backends is recommended for certain types of test cases. - -To run the tests with this included settings file, ``cd`` -to the ``tests/`` directory and type: - -.. code-block:: bash - - ./runtests.py --settings=test_sqlite - -If you're using another backend, you will need to provide other details for -each database: +If you're using a backend that isn't SQLite, you will need to provide other +details for each database: * The :setting:`USER` option for each of your databases needs to specify an existing user account for the database. @@ -942,6 +955,40 @@ character set. If your database server doesn't use UTF-8 as a default charset, you will need to include a value for ``TEST_CHARSET`` in the settings dictionary for the applicable database. +Running only some of the tests +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Django's entire test suite takes a few minutes to run. To run a subset of the +unit tests, append the names of the test modules to the ``runtests.py`` +command line. + +As an example, if you'd like to only run tests for generic relations and +internationalization, type: + +.. code-block:: bash + + ./runtests.py --settings=path.to.settings generic_relations i18n + +See the list of directories in ``tests/modeltests`` and +``tests/regressiontests`` for module names. + +If you just want to run a particular class of tests, you can specify a list of +paths to individual test classes. For example, to run the ``TranslationTests`` +of the ``i18n`` module, type: + +.. code-block:: bash + + ./runtests.py --settings=path.to.settings i18n.TranslationTests + +You can specify an individual test like this: + +.. code-block:: bash + + ./runtests.py --settings=path.to.settings i18n.TranslationTests.test_lazy_objects + +Running all the tests +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + If you want to run the full suite of tests, you'll need to install a number of dependencies: @@ -967,19 +1014,6 @@ associated tests will be skipped. .. _memcached: http://www.danga.com/memcached/ .. _gettext: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html -To run a subset of the unit tests, append the names of the test modules to the -``runtests.py`` command line. See the list of directories in -``tests/modeltests`` and ``tests/regressiontests`` for module names. - -As an example, if Django is not in your ``PYTHONPATH``, you placed -``settings.py`` in the ``tests/`` directory, and you'd like to only run tests -for generic relations and internationalization, type: - -.. code-block:: bash - - PYTHONPATH=`pwd`/.. - ./runtests.py --settings=settings generic_relations i18n - Contrib apps ------------