[Django]-Run Django unit tests from custom management command

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I’m sorry for not having searched for an answer long enough before asking, but I found the solution to this problem myself in another Stackoverflow answer:

Essentially, instead of unittest.main() the following code can be used:

suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(TestCaseClass)
unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)

This will load all tests in the specified TestCaseClass. If you want to load all tests in the current module, creating the suite this way will help:

suite = TestLoader().loadTestsFromName(__name__)

The Stackoverflow answer linked above contains a full example. Furthermore, the Basic Example section of the unittest module docs describes the same thing. For other options to load tests, see Loading and running tests in the docs.

👤Danilo Bargen

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You may want to specify the contents of your start-up db through fixtures. It will load up the context for db for particular test. And you can take a snapshot of db with 

$ ./manage.py dumpdata my_app > fixtures/my_pre_test_db.json`

Now in your unit test you will have something like this:

class MyTestCase(TestCase):
    fixtures = ['fixtures/my_pre_test_db.json']

    def testThisFeature(self):
        ...
👤Oleksiy

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