2017-10-02 Django

Django Testing Admin

Django Testing Admin#

The admin section of django is part of your site too. Why should it not be tested?

Every part of your site should be able to be tested

Authenticating#

Create a file called test/test_admin.py in your test folder that is a module (ie. it has a __init__.py)

Create the test class, create a super user and log the user in

class PasswordChangeTests(TestCase):
    '''Check that changing the password on admin side works
    '''
    def setUp(self):
        self.super_user = get_user_model().objects.create_superuser(
            email='testsuper@testsuper.co.za',
            password='1234test'
        )
        self.client.login(
            username='testsuper@testsuper.co.za',
            password='1234test'
        )

Now how do we get anywhere, well we need to know the names of urls to reverse in the docs but we can find this in the django.contrib.auth package as well

Use the reverse method to test the response

def test_password_change_link_exists(self):
    '''Test on the user change page a password change button exists
    '''
    response = self.client.get(
        reverse(
            'admin:users_user_change',
            args=(self.super_user.id,)
        )
    )
    self.assertContains(response, 'Change user')
    self.assertContains(
        response, 
        "Raw passwords are not stored, "
        "so there is no way to see this user's password,"
        " but you can change the password using this form."
    )

The imports needed are

from django.test import TestCase
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse