Simplifying the Testing of Unmanaged Database Models in Django

September 24, 2010

Sometimes, when building a web application in Django, one needs to connect to a legacy database whose tables already exist. To support this use case, Django has the concept of "unmanaged models," which let you connect the Django ORM to tables that it assumes to exist (and not attempt to ...

Testing Django Views for Concurrency Issues

May 26, 2009

At Caktus, we rely heavily on automated testing for web app development. We create tests for all the code we write, ideally before the code is written. We create tests for every bug we find and, resources permitting, ramp up the test suite with lots of random input and boundary ...