Django provides tools for you to write test suites for your website. Test suites automatically check your website and its components, to ensure that everything is working correctly. When you modify your code, you can run the tests to check whether your changes affected the application's behavior in a negative way.
The world of automated software testing has a wide range of divisions and terminologies. For the sake of this book, we will divide testing into the following categories:
- Unit testing refers to tests that are strictly targeted at individual pieces, or units, of code. Most commonly, a unit corresponds to a single file or module, and unit tests do their best to validate that the logic and behaviors are as expected.
- Integration testing goes one step further, dealing with the way that two or more units work with one another. Such tests do not...
