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- commit/rollback are no longer replaced by nop - the warning about not using TestCase when testing transactional behavior belongs to TestCase section, not TransactionTestCase
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Django's ``TestCase`` class (described below) makes use of database transaction
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facilities to speed up the process of resetting the database to a known state
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at the beginning of each test. A consequence of this, however, is that the
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effects of transaction commit and rollback cannot be tested by a Django
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``TestCase`` class. If your test requires testing of such transactional
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behavior, you should use a Django ``TransactionTestCase``.
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at the beginning of each test. A consequence of this, however, is that some
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database behaviors cannot be tested within a Django ``TestCase`` class. For
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instance, you cannot test that a block of code is executing within a
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transaction, as is required when using
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:meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.select_for_update()`. In those cases,
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you should use ``TransactionTestCase``.
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.. versionchanged:: 1.8
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In older versions of Django, the effects of transaction commit and rollback
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could not be tested within a ``TestCase``. With the completion of the
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deprecation cycle of the old-style transaction management in Django 1.8,
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transaction management commands (e.g. ``transaction.commit()``) are no
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longer disabled within ``TestCase``.
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``TransactionTestCase`` and ``TestCase`` are identical except for the manner
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in which the database is reset to a known state and the ability for test code
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* A ``TestCase``, on the other hand, does not truncate tables after a test.
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Instead, it encloses the test code in a database transaction that is rolled
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back at the end of the test. Both explicit commits like
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``transaction.commit()`` and implicit ones that may be caused by
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``transaction.atomic()`` are replaced with a ``nop`` operation. This
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guarantees that the rollback at the end of the test restores the database to
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its initial state.
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back at the end of the test. This guarantees that the rollback at the end of
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the test restores the database to its initial state.
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.. warning::
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this) you can set ``serialized_rollback = True`` inside the
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``TestCase`` body.
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.. warning::
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While ``commit`` and ``rollback`` operations still *appear* to work when
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used in ``TestCase``, no actual commit or rollback will be performed by the
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database. This can cause your tests to pass or fail unexpectedly. Always
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use ``TransactionTestCase`` when testing transactional behavior or any code
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that can't normally be executed in autocommit mode
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(:meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.select_for_update()` is an
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example).
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``TransactionTestCase`` inherits from :class:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase`.
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TestCase
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* Django-specific assertions for testing for things like redirection and form
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errors.
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.. warning::
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If you want to test some specific database transaction behavior, you should
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use ``TransactionTestCase``, as ``TestCase`` wraps test execution within an
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:func:`~django.db.transaction.atomic()` block.
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``TestCase`` inherits from :class:`~django.test.TransactionTestCase`.
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.. _live-test-server:
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