Learn how to design and execute unit tests before building a complete application.

Become a Django Developer

This module is an introduction to test-driven development and a practical guide on applying these principles to Django development. We’ll start with learning about automated testing, including the differences between test-driven development and development-driven testing. We’ll then be introduced to Django, a Python framework for building web applications. We’ll design and write a series of unit tests before building a complete web application using Django—a web application that will pass all the tests we designed, to ensure a robust, low-risk experience.

By the end of this module, we’ll be familiar with test-driven development, Red-Green Refactor methodology, and deploying quality applications using Django.

Build Robust Applications with Test-driven Development in Django

This is the end of the fourth chapter. Let’s have a short recap of what was covered and the key takeaways.

- In this chapter, we learned about web forms and their importance in today’s web applications. We saw several use cases of a web form in a website.
- Additionally, we saw how to create a web form in HTML with some input fields.
We were introduced to the concept of cross-site request forgery or CSRF and how Django helps protect our web application from this vulnerability.
- We also learned to create a web form in Django programmatically, using Python instead of regular HTML.
- All the steps were taken in a test-driven way where we write our test before actually writing the code.
- Finally, we saw how to use templates in Django and learned to import a styling package like Bootstrap.

This is a short recap of what was covered in the fourth chapter.

Introduction

Steps Involved in Test-driven Development

E-library Application: Part One

E-library Application: Part Two

E-library Application: Part Three

What's Next?

Conclusion

Summary