A TestCase for Django admin, witch checks whether all admin pages work.

tests.py

import re

from django.test import TestCase, Client
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

LINK_PATTERN = re.compile(r'<a href="(/admin/[^ ]+)"')


class TestDjangoAdmin(TestCase):

    def test_if_admin_pages_work(self):
        """
        If there is something wrong with migrations,
        related admin pages are not accessable.
        Checking whether the admin pages work is thus
        a good opportunity to control whether
        the structure of the database is OK.
        """
        # Create user and log in
        password = 'adminadminadmin'
        user = User.objects.create_superuser('myuser', 'myemail@test.com', password)
        client = Client()
        login = client.login(username=user.username, password=password)
        self.assertEqual(login, True)

        # Go to admin homepage
        homepage_response = client.get('/haldus/')
        self.assertEqual(homepage_response.status_code, 200)

        # # Find all links on that page
        html = homepage_response.content.decode('utf-8')
        matches = LINK_PATTERN.finditer(html)

        # Clear results to get URLs
        # There are a lot duplicate URLs on the page. To remove them, we use a set instead of a list.
        # We do not want to change password or log out, therefore theese URLs are excluded.
        urls = {match.groups()[0] for match in matches} - {'/haldus/password_change/', '/haldus/logout/'}

        # Visit URLs and check response.status_code
        for url in urls:
            response = client.get(url)
            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200, msg=f"This url cannot be accessed: '{url}'")