Testing with Django's RequestFactory

django_request_factory.py

from django.test.client import RequestFactory
from django.utils.unittest import TestCase

from myapp.views import my_view


class MyViewTestCase(TestCase):

    def test_my_view_should_return_200_status_code(self):
        request = RequestFactory().get('url_for_the_view')
        request.custom_attr = ':)'
        response = my_view(request)
        self.assertEqual(200, response.status_code)