[wingide-users] Integrating with django's unit tests

[Chaiwat Suttipongsakul]

Wingware Support wrote:
> Philip Gatt wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to integrate Wing with Django's unit tests? With 
>> my django projects, I usually run my unit tests with the following 
>> command:
>>
>> ./manage.py test
>>
>> I tried running unit tests within WingIDE, but the problem is that 
>> django does some setup & cleanup work that needs to run before the 
>> tests can be run. I'm not an expert here, but I suspect that we need 
>> to tie WingIDE into django's test runner.
>
> Most likely you won't be able to get this working in Wing's Testing tool
> since it assumes that tests will themselves do setup and tear-down and
> not depend on the inherited environment.  The thing to look for or ask
> about on a Django mailing list is whether there's a way to run the tests
> outside of manage.py -- perhaps some option to have the tests 
> automatically
> call setup/teardown functions.
>
> Since this general issue also came up yesterday in the context of Zope3,
> we'll try to figure out some way to do this.  The problem is that Wing's
> test runner is packing up results in a way that Wing can read to update
> the Testing tool display, and combining that w/ the Django code's 
> iteration
> over the tests would be essentially rewriting that code.  It's certainly
> possible, but I'd like to see if there's a solution that won't require
> redoing the runner w/ every Django (and Zope3 and ...) release.
>
Hi,

I'm new on this, but you may try nose with NoseDjango plugin.

nose: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nose/0.10.4
NoseDjango: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/NoseDjango/0.6

AFAIK, NoseDjango will setup, teardown, create database, drop database 
for you.

I'm learning this test tool too.

Regards,
Chaiwat.S