[Django]-How to create a test-only Django model in general (and with pytest-django specifically)

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So I ended up solving my own issue. As @hoefling mentioned, the best way is to create a separate settings file that extends your normal settings file and specify that as your pytest settings file.

// pytest.ini
[pytest]
addopts = --ds=config.settings.test

An important thing to note is that you cannot have your test modules be the same name as already existing apps, as I found out. So the structure I had with backend/tests/richeditable is not allowed no matter what you do. So I prepended each folder with test_ and it works fine. This also solves the issue of having to include app_label in your models.

# testsettings.py
from .settings import *  # noqa

INSTALLED_APPS += [
    'backend.tests.test_projects',
    'backend.tests.test_blog',
    'backend.tests.test_richeditable',
]

backend
├── projects
├── blog
├── richeditable
├── tests
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── conftest.py
│   ├── test_blog
│   │   ├── ...
│   ├── test_projects
│   │   ├── ...
│   └── test_richeditable
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── test_model.py
│   │   ├── models.py
👤Kalin Kochnev

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