I'm hoping someone can help me improve this process.
Short:
I want to run Selenium tests during Django's unit tests.
When 'manage.py test' is running, there's no dev server available
for Selenium.
If I run my Django app separately, changes to the database are
cumulative instead of discrete, like Django's own tests.
My current solution:
I have a bash script that re-loads my local database from my test
fixtures then runs my app (via gunicorn) in the background.
Then I run 'manage.py test' and my tests (including the Selenium
tests) run.
Afterwards, my bash script sends a 'kill' command to the process ID
of my gunicorn script.
This works, but:
The Selenium tests each run from the same database, so db changes
are cumulative.
I have to create the database each time, separate from the one
Django's TestCase instances are using.
This also replaces my local development database each time, which
isn't a problem because I reload it from the fixtures regularly anyway,
but is mildly inconvenient.
Alternative method:
It's possible to use subprocess in a TestCase setUp and tearDown to
launch the Django dev server each time. This fixes the fixture refresh
issue.
However, this requires a separate settings.py file for testing to
set the "default" database settings to what the real settings.py file
uses for the test database.
I don't like this solution because it makes it impossible to use an
in-memory sqlite3 database and the interaction with the command line via
subprocess gets messy.
I found django-nose-selenium via a Google search, but it requires the
Java Selenium server to be running. It also adds a lot of extra stuff to
my project: installed apps, extra settings, extra command-line commands
required, and more complicated TestCases. I'm just using the Selenium
webdriver in a unittest.TestCase and it works great without any of that.
I don't want to add all that complexity just to get fresh fixtures for
each test.
Thanks,
Shawn
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