djangotestingdjango-admincustom-action

How to test custom django-admin commands

I created custom django-admin commands

But, I don't know how to test it in standard django tests

Solution

  • If you're using some coverage tool it would be good to call it from the code with:

    from django.core.management import call_command
from django.test import TestCase

class CommandsTestCase(TestCase):
    def test_mycommand(self):
        " Test my custom command."

        args = []
        opts = {}
        call_command('mycommand', *args, **opts)

        # Some Asserts.

    From the official documentation

    Management commands can be tested with the call_command() function. The output can be redirected into a StringIO instance