Organizing Django unit tests

Question

Right now I have my Django unit tests living at mcif/tests.py. I would prefer to have something more like mcif/tests/foo_test.py, mcif/tests/bar_test.py, etc., but if I organize my tests that way, Django flips out.

Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do or do I have to have all my tests in one file?

Answer 1

From version 1.6 of Django, the test discovery mechanism changed. You no longer need to import everything from tests/__init__.py, but now you have to make sure that all your files containing tests match the pattern test*.py.

So, instead of having app/tests/models.py and app/tests/views.py, now you should have app/tests/test_models.py and app/tests/test_views.py.

You could also create a file named app/tests/test.py and include your other files from there. The thing is that the runner will look for files matching the pattern test*.py and execute them.