Add a tutorial for the testing framework

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Testing is an important part of modern website development. The official Django tutorial should include a section on how to use the testing framework.

[Alexander Lyabah]

​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/#using-different-testing-frameworks

it's not enough? What section must be added?

[Eric Holscher]

I'd like to see this get into 1.3. Fix the "more tutorials coming later" at the end of the current tut.

If any of the documentation at ​http://djangotesting.com/ is worthwhile for inclusion, I would gladly donate it (It's in restructured text already). Or if anyone wanted to use that as a starting point, that would be awesome.

[Eric Holscher]

Sadly not going to have time to get this in for 1.3. Again.

[holdenweb]

Please note that ​http://djangotesting.com/ is currently unavailable due to expiry of the domain name registration.

[Daniele Procida]

If no-one else has already embarked on the task, I would like to write up and contribute some documentation based on testing the application as it stands in the tutorial.

It's not mentioned in the "coming soon" section (1.4, it's gone from dev), so I assume not.

After writing Django code for more than three years I have only just learned how to do tests, and understood what they are for, despite several abortive previous attempts. It's something I wish I had understood much earlier.

Please let me know whether I should embark on this. I can start immediately, and can demonstrate work-in-progress on GitHub, but I don't want to spend a lot of time on it if someone else already has something ready to drop in.

[anonymous]

Work in progress at ​https://github.com/evildmp/django/blob/testing-tutorial/docs/intro/tutorial05.txt; can I have some feedback please?

[Preston Holmes]

The tone and scope of this is good needs some minor work here and there - I gave some feedback to the author on IRC. Additional review would be great.