behave-django

Behave BDD integration for Django

Features

• Web browser automation ready

• Database transactions per scenario

• Use Django’s test client

• Use unittest + Django assert library

• Use behave’s command line arguments

• Use behave’s configuration file

• Fixture loading

• Page objects

Contents

• Installation
• Getting Started
  • Alternative folder structure
• Web Browser Automation
• Django’s Test Client
  • Simple testing
  • unittest + Django assert library
• Test Coverage
  • Prerequisites
  • Invoke via coverage
  • Integrate via environment.py
• Test Isolation
  • Database transactions per scenario
  • Troubleshooting
• Fixture Loading
  • Fixtures in environment.py
  • Fixtures using a decorator
  • Support for multiple databases
• Using Page Objects
• Environment Setup
  • django_ready hook
• Configuration
  • Command line options
  • Behave configuration file
• Contributing
  • Preparation
  • Essentials
  • Getting your hands dirty
  • Documentation changes
  • Finally
  • Other things to note

Version Support

behave-django is tested against the officially supported combinations of Python and Django (Django 3.2, 4.2, 5.0 on Python 3.7 through 3.12).

behave-django requires a few newer features of behave and hence installs a recent unreleased version of behave as a dependency.

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