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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, James.

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM, James Westby
<james.westby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We weren't sure about appropriate tests for the basics of models, such
> as creating an object and checking that it has an attribute that was
> defined via a field. This is hampered as in my testing some things about
> the field, such as limits on the length of a string don't seem to be
> enforced in a test environment (with the sqlite3 backend).
>

I don't usually test things that are covered by the Django test suite.
 So I wouldn't test model validation again, since Django itself has
tests for this.  Others don't like to trust the framework this way, so
it's a personal choice.  Were it me, I would just test the behavior of
the model that is unique to my application.

Cheers,
deryck


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