Showing 7 to 12 of 13 blog posts by Mark Lavin.
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Testing Client-Side Applications with Django Post Mortem
I had the opportunity to give a webcast for O’Reilly Media during which I encountered a presenter’s nightmare: a broken demo. Worse than that it was a test failure in a presenta... Read more
June 8, 2015 -
Tips for Upgrading Django
From time to time we inherit code bases running outdated versions of Django and part of our work is to get them running a stable and secure version. In the past year we've done ... Read more
July 7, 2014 -
Skipping Test DB Creation
We are always looking for ways to make our tests run faster. That means writing tests which don't preform I/O (DB reads/writes, disk reads/writes) when possible. Django has a c... Read more
October 2, 2013 -
Factory Boy as an Alternative to Django Testing Fixtures
When testing a Django application you often need to populate the test database with some sample data. The standard Django TestCase has support for fixture loading but there are... Read more
July 17, 2013 -
MEDIA_ROOT and Django Tests
If you’ve ever written a test for a view or model with associated uploaded files you might have noticed a small problem with those files hanging around after the tests are comp... Read more
June 26, 2013 -
Managing Django Translations with Transifex
We manage a number of open source Django apps here at Caktus. While many of us here are proficient in a number of programming languages, the same can’t be said for our ability t... Read more
April 25, 2013
