Author Archives: Chris Heisel

Django testing tip: don’t test template output

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Chris Heisel

When writing tests for [Django views](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/#the-view-layer), especially for projects at [work](http://www.ajc.com), I’ve almost completely abandoned any sort of detailed test for the template being rendered. My tests usually look something like this: def test_link_archive_should_show_published_links(self): “””Links in draft status shouldn’t appear … Continue reading →

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Where Are the AB Testing Frameworks?

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Chris Heisel

Where Are the AB Testing Frameworks? – I need to hack on something like this for Django — it seems it should be fairly easy to swap templates and set a cookie for the life of the session. The bigger … Continue reading →