Welcome to Pytest Django and DRF Tutorial 🦄

This tutorial series is dedicated to exploring the basics of inbuilt Django testing and introduces Pytest and its various plugins to help us write better code

Currently we cover the following:

• Code coverage,
• Generating fixtures using Mixer
• Complex testing of edge-cases using Hypothesis
• Testing Serializers
• Testing DRF Views
• DRF authentication testing
• Github Actions

Additional Resources

• Full Course(FREE): https://geoffreynyaga.com/courses/pytest-django-and-django-rest-framework/
• YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP1DxoSC17LZTTzgfq0Dimkm6eWJQC9ki

Installation 📥

mkdir <my_project>

cd my_project

git clone https://github.com/geoffreynyaga/django-and-djangorestframework-pytest-tutorial.git .

Testing setup🧪🧪

The projects uses pytest and black as the formatting option. The tests also check for consistencies on code format.

To initiate tests follow the steps below:

1. Its advised to create a virtual environment in the root folder

   virtualenv venv

2. Activate the environent.

   a. For Linux/MacOS users use the command below

   source venv/bin/activate

   b. for windows users

   cd venv/Scripts
   
   activate.bat

3. Install the requirements

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the pytest command

   pytest

The testing results will be displayed and there will also be a htmlcov folder generated inside the project that will contain the code coverage details.

    .
    ├── accounts
    │   ├── api
    │   │   └── tests
    │   └── migrations
    ├── classroom
    ├── htmlcov
    └── venv

Open up the folder and open the index.html in your browser to see this information.

Project layout

    .
    ├── accounts
    │   ├── api
    │   │   └── tests
    │   └── migrations
    ├── classroom
    ├── htmlcov
    └── venv # after you create the virtualenv