django-litetest 1.0

A lightweight Django manage.py litetest command for quick unittest runs.

If you’ve been developing in Django for a while, you probably have plenty of tests written. This is great, but they probably take a long time to run. If you do any sort of Test-Driven Development, slow tests means a frustrating edit-test loop.

django-litetest helps you run quick, lightweight tests by doing a few things:

• Use in-memory SQLite databases instead of your usual test databases,

• Use in-memory caches instead of your usual caches,

• If you’re using South, creates models directly.

With django-litetest, fixing a bug becomes as quick as this:

1. Add a new test to reproduce the bug,

2. Run manage.py litetest testname,

3. Edit the code to fix the bug,

4. Run manage.py litetest testname again,

5. Run manage.py test to ensure that all your tests pass.

$ git clone https://github.com/sfllaw/django-litetest.git

$ pip install django-litetest

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'south',
    'django_litetest',
    ...
)

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'db',
        'USER': 'user',
        'PASSWORD': 'password',
        'HOST': 'db.example.com',
        'PORT': '',
        'LITETEST': True,
    }
}

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache',
        'LOCATION': 'memcache.example.com:11211',
        'LITETEST': True,
    },
}

SOUTH_TESTS_MIGRATE = 'LITETEST'