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Web Development with Django

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212505
Pages 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (5):
Ben Shaw Ben Shaw
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Saurabh Badhwar Saurabh Badhwar
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Andrew Bird Andrew Bird
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Bharath Chandra K S Bharath Chandra K S
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Chris Guest Chris Guest
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface
1. Introduction to Django 2. Models and Migrations 3. URL Mapping, Views, and Templates 4. Introduction to Django Admin 5. Serving Static Files 6. Forms 7. Advanced Form Validation and Model Forms 8. Media Serving and File Uploads 9. Sessions and Authentication 10. Advanced Django Admin and Customizations 11. Advanced Templating and Class-Based Views 12. Building a REST API 13. Generating CSV, PDF, and Other Binary Files 14. Testing 15. Django Third-Party Libraries 16. Using a Frontend JavaScript Library with Django

Testing Django Models

Models in Django are object-based representations of how the data will be stored inside the database of an application. They provide methods that can help us validate the data input provided for a given record, as well as performing any processing on the data before it is inserted into the database.

As easy as it is to create models in Django, it is equally easy to test them. Now, let us look at how Django models can be tested using the Django test framework.

Exercise 14.02: Testing Django Models

In this exercise, you will create a new Django model and write test cases for it. The test case will validate whether your model can correctly insert and retrieve the data from the database. These kinds of test cases that work on database models can turn out to be useful in cases where a team of developers is collaborating on a large project and the same database model may get modified by multiple developers over time. Implementing test cases for database models...

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