[Fixed]-Django – Writing unit tests with mocks

If you want to test your models, you can hardly bypass the database, and yes indeed it can make the tests somewhat slower, even if using an in-memory SQLite db – which can lead to other problems FWIW since SQLite is not a transparant replacement for something like PostgreSQL.

But assuming whatever model or or other function / object / method you call in your views have their own unittest and you only want to check your views do the expected calls, mocking is viable strategy – actually probably saner than testing the results of the expected calls (which mostly turn your unittests into integration tests).