Django not creating a testdatabase when testing

Question

I am running tests in my newly created Django project.

Normally I would expect to see a test database created for when tests are running. All tests are running fine, but I am seeing that my local database (for runserver use) is beeing used when running the tests.

A lot of excess data is beeing created in the wrong database. How can I get my test setup to use the normal test_dabasename setup again?

Im not sure what I have changed to make this happen and am totally stumped.

class TestRest(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        ...

    def test_allowed_to_get_list_authenticated(self):
        ....

please check this ticket it has similar answer for your question stackoverflow.com/a/4650651/6365947 — issam abbas
– issam abbas, Commented Jul 28, 2020 at 13:50
@issamabbas I can go in and edit the project.settings.test config with data like that, but then I get other errors, for example: DATABASES["default"] = {"ENGINE": "django.db.backends.sqlite3", "NAME": "mydatabase"} leads to django.db.utils.OperationalError: no such table: base_user and DATABASES["default"]["NAME"] = f"test_{os.getenv('DB_NAME')}" leads to database "test_mitt_se" does not exist — Andreas
– Andreas, Commented Jul 29, 2020 at 6:19

Dušan Maďar · Accepted Answer · 2024-10-02 10:56:31Z

18

Found it. Im such a bad programmer :(.

I imported from

from unittest.case import TestCase

when it should have been

from django.test import TestCase

This lead to no test database beeing created.

edited Oct 2, 2024 at 10:56

Dušan Maďar

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answered Jul 29, 2020 at 7:14

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