faster tests with django_nose.FastFixtureTestCase

apps/amo/runner.py

@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@
 import django_nose
 
 
-class DiscoverRunnerWithExtraApps(django_nose.NoseTestSuiteRunner):
+class TestRunner(django_nose.NoseTestSuiteRunner):
     def setup_test_environment(self, **kwargs):
-        rval = super(
-            DiscoverRunnerWithExtraApps, self).setup_test_environment(**kwargs)
+        rval = super(TestRunner, self).setup_test_environment(**kwargs)
         extra_apps = getattr(settings, 'TEST_INSTALLED_APPS')
         if extra_apps:
             installed_apps = getattr(settings, 'INSTALLED_APPS')

apps/amo/tests/__init__.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import mock
 import tower
 from dateutil.parser import parse as dateutil_parser
+from django_nose import FastFixtureTestCase
 from nose.exc import SkipTest
 from nose.tools import eq_, nottest
 from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
@@ -258,7 +259,7 @@ def default_prefixer():
     amo.urlresolvers.set_url_prefix(prefixer)
 
 
-class BaseTestCase(test.TestCase):
+class BaseTestCase(FastFixtureTestCase):
     """Base test case that each and every test cases should inherit from."""
 
     def _pre_setup(self):
@@ -303,6 +304,8 @@ def instrumented_render(self, *args, **kwargs):
         # Reset the prefixer.
         default_prefixer()
 
+        self.client = self.client_class()
+
     def _post_teardown(self):
         amo.set_user(None)
         clean_translations(None)  # Make sure queued translations are removed.

lib/settings_base.py

@@ -423,13 +423,13 @@ def JINJA_CONFIG():
 )
 
 # These apps are only needed in a testing environment. They are added to
-# INSTALLED_APPS by the RadicalTestSuiteRunnerWithExtraApps test runner.
+# INSTALLED_APPS by the amo.runner.TestRunner test runner.
 TEST_INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'translations.tests.testapp',
 )
 
 # Tests
-TEST_RUNNER = 'amo.runner.DiscoverRunnerWithExtraApps'
+TEST_RUNNER = 'amo.runner.TestRunner'
 NOSE_ARGS = [
     '--with-fixture-bundling',
 ]