Django Windmill Tests – GSOC Progress Update

I feel that a status update is long overdue, but as the corpus of Windmill tests grows, so does the time it takes to run a complete instance of the regression suite. However, I do have some fun progress to report as well as a few questions/problems that are showing themselves now that all the fluff is over. First, let’s talk about the fun stuff!

I do have 3 of my major improvements/fixes/restructures to django.test somewhat complete. At the moment they are lacking most in documentation, a problem I intended to rectify later this week.

1. Windmill Tests: Windmill test runners are nearly complete, threaded development server for AJAX widget testing complete.
2. Code Coverage: Coverage.py support for runtests.py and management command. Extensible system is easily pluggable with other coverage systems.
3. Test-Only Models: This is still a topic of discussion, but adding the property ‘test_models’ to a TestSuite will load and wipe the models. Has tests and limited docs.

My major TODO’s still outstanding:

• Documentation!
• Twill Runner Support (Utilizing the Windmill Threaded Server)
• Windmill Admin Regression Tests (Healthy set of tests written, need to document and finish more)
• Skip tests that are known to fail
• Test new features/API’s

That’s it for now, more updates are available on the django-dev list!

Google Summer of Code 2009: Django Testing Updates!

So my Google Summer of Code: 2009 project proposal was accepted! I will be working on a 2 phase project revolving around Django’s testing framework, and regression suite. Most notebly, I plan to:

• Implement Windmill test coverage for Django’s Infamous contrib.admin
• Provide several missing features/conveniences to the Django testing tools

While it may not be the most glamorous project, I’m excited for it! When paired with my epic mentors, (the ever-infamous Eric Holscher and notorious George Song) it looks to be a solid summer. You can expect me to post weekly status updates here, as well as anything else relevant to the project. As my ‘get to know Django and make sure I can conform with coding standards etc.’ ticket, I’m planning to add an assertion which checks for dead links after template rendering. Or, as its better known, Django Ticket #5418.

I want to also give a quick thanks to Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Eric Holscher, Jannis Leidel and all the other PyCon 2009 Sprinters who helped me create the proposal.