Advices from Valentino Gagliardi

See also

• https://fediverse.org/gagliardi_vale

I’ve seen a ton of Django tutorials starting like so:

class SomeModelModelTest(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        SomeModel.objects.create(
            name=fake.name(),
            email=fake.email(),
            phone=fake.phone_number(),
            message=fake.text(),
            source=fake.url()
        )
    def test_save_model(self):
        saved_models = SomeModel.objects.count()
        self.assertEqual(saved_models, 2)

Don’t do that .

There’s no point in testing neither a vanilla Django model nor the Django ORM.

Here’s a good starting point for testing in Django:

• do not test Django built-in code (models, views, etc)

• do not test Python built-in functions

To recap: do not test what is already tested !