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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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Setting up unit tests


First, we will install the coverage and django-nose packages in our virtual environment. We will make the necessary configurations to use the django_nose.NoseTestRunner class to run all the tests we code and we will use the necessary configurations to improve the accuracy of the test coverage measurements.

Make sure that you quit Django's development server. Remember that you just need to press Ctrl + C in the terminal or the Command Prompt window in which it is running. We just need to run the following command to install the coverage package:

pip install coverage

The last few lines of the output indicate that the django-nose package has been successfully installed:

Collecting coverage
  Downloading coverage-4.1.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: coverage
  Running setup.py install for coverage
Successfully installed coverage-4.1

We just need to run the following command to install the django-nose package:

pip install django-nose

The last few lines of the output...

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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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