What problem does it solve?
Django teams often ship bugs late because core behaviors across models, views, and APIs aren’t verified early and consistently.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Red-Green-Refactor TDD workflow: Start with failing tests, implement the smallest passing change, then refactor while keeping tests green—useful for adding features incrementally.
- pytest-django configuration for fast, repeatable test runs: Use settings that speed up CI by disabling migrations, reusing the database, and collecting coverage to maintain quality over time.
- Model, view, and DRF API testing patterns: Validate business rules, permissions/redirects, serializer validation, and endpoint behavior using fixtures and authenticated clients.
- Factory Boy + mocking guidance: Generate realistic test data with factories and safely mock external integrations (e.g., payment gateways, email backends) to avoid flaky tests.
- Example coverage targets and best practices: Keep tests maintainable by focusing assertions, isolating dependencies, and running against the test database only.
Quick Start
Ask the AI to generate a pytest-django TDD test suite for a new Django app’s model validations, HTML views, and DRF endpoints using factory_boy and mocking for external services.
