How to add Fixtures into your Django app with Mixer
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This document introduces the 'mixer' tool for generating test data in Django applications, explaining its API features and functions. It emphasizes the importance of fixtures for providing initial data and outlines how to integrate mixer into application testing. The conclusion highlights the simplicity and effectiveness of using mixer in development and testing workflows.
How to add Fixtures into your Django app with Mixer
- 1. Getting Started with Mixer Guinsly Mondésir Github ~ Twitter Master in Information Studies May 2017 Audience: Beginner Category: Web development, Tests 6 min.
- 2. Overview ● What are fixtures ● What is Mixer ● API (Briefly) ● Tests ● Conclusion
- 3. What are fixtures (Django) ● A quick and efficient way to provide initial data in your Django applications. ● Provide initial data
- 5. What is Mixer ● Mixer is an application to generate instances of Django or SQLAlchemy models. It's useful for testing and fixtures replacement. Fast and convenient test-data generation.
- 6. 1- API Briefly ● API – .blend() – .cycle() – .sequence()/.RANDOM – .fake – locale – ORM
- 7. Class Diagram - Blog
- 8. .blend() ● Generates instance of scheme.
- 9. .blend()
- 10. No magic
- 11. No Magic (suite)
- 12. .cycle() ● Generate a few objects.
- 13. .sequence() ● Create a sequence for predefined values.
- 14. .RANDOM() ● Act almost as mixer.sequence() but randomly
- 15. fake=True
- 16. .faker.locale ●
- 17. 2- ORM ● OneToOne ● OneToMany ● ManyToMany ● ManyToMany_Through ● Contenttypes ● Proxy
- 19. 3- Test Structure Overview
- 20. test_models.py
- 21. test_views.py
- 22. Conclusion ● Fixture : provide initial data to your applications ● TDD : test-fixtures ● Mixer: a package that helps to create fixture into your app ● Easy way to test your great ideas. ● There is no magic ● How to use it on your Tests (views; models; forms) ● Flask-Class-SQL Alchemy ● Star it / use it
- 23. References ● Django ● Mixer.Readthedoc ● Testing Django (Mozilla developer network) ● Images Json-XML ● Images: Blog wireframe