id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
24484	Add a helpful message when running tests with models without migrations	Chris Adams		"Prior to Django 1.7, you could create a new app and run tests immediately:

django-admin.py startapp new_app
… add a model & test …
django-admin.py test

Since Django 1.7, however, if you don't run makemigrations first the tests will fail in a manner which doesn't give any indication of what you can do to fix it. setup_databases() will eventually fail with a ""OperationalError: no such table"" for every model which doesn't have an initial migration.

I'm filing this under documentation because the easiest path to solve it would be updating the startapp and running tests docs to add a prominent notice somewhere that you must run makemigrations before you can run any tests but if there's a clean way to do it having setup_databases catch this and give a helpful message would probably save people some searching.
"	Cleanup/optimization	new	Testing framework	dev	Normal				Accepted	1	0	0	1	0	0