Discovering and running unit tests with pytest

Now, go to the restful01 folder that contains the manage.py file, with the virtual environment activated, and run the following command:

pytest

The pytest command and the Django REST framework will perform the following actions:

1. Create a clean test database name test_drones.
2. Run all the migrations required for the database.
3. Discover the tests that have to be executed based on the settings specified in the pytest.ini file.
4. Run all the methods whose name starts with the test_ prefix in the DroneCategoryTests class and display the results. We declared this class in the tests.py file and it matches the pattern specified for the python_files setting in the pytest.ini file.
5. Drop the test database named test_drones.

Note

It is very important to know that the tests won't make changes to the database we have been using when working with our RESTful Web Service. Notice that the test database name is test_drones and the database name that we have been using with...