Django (1.6) functional tests (selenium + manage.py runserver)

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Django functional testing

Django manage.py custom command for functional testing.

Fisrtly, the command starts the django sever via python manage.py runserver and secondly, it runs some Selenium tests.

Use:

python manage.py run_functional_tests --settings=config.settings.test

functional_tests.py

# file path: functional_tests/functional_tests.py

import time
from selenium import webdriver

def run():
    browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    browser.get('http://localhost:8000')
    for i in xrange(0,11):
        time.sleep(1)
        print 'sleep {}s.'.format(i)
    browser.quit()

run_functional_tests.py

#file path: functional_tests/management/commands/run_functional_tests.py
import os
import sys
import subprocess
import time

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand

from functional_tests.functional_tests import run as run_functional


class Command(BaseCommand):
    help = "Running Tests"
    
    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        managePath= '/path/to/manage.py'
        max_waiting_time = 60
        time_step = 5
        time_counter = 0
        print "Running Tests"

        # start django server
        print "Starting Django Test Server"
        django = subprocess.Popen(['python', managePath, 'runserver', '--noreload'])
        print "Waiting for Django to Start"
        django_reachable = False
        while not django_reachable:
            wget = subprocess.call  (['wget',
                                      '--output-file=/dev/null',
                                      '--spider',
                                      'http://localhost:8000'])
            if wget == 0:
                print "Django started."
                django_reachable = True
            else:
                if time_counter > max_waiting_time:
                    django.kill()
                    sys.exit("* ERROR: django timeout *")
                print "Still waiting ..."
                time.sleep(time_step)
                time_counter += time_step

        run_functional()
        print "kill django "
        django.kill()