This might be slightly confusing at first, but actually makes perfect sense if you think about it. If you have a brand new Django project and you run the tests it fails with a number of errors.
# python manage.py test
Creating test database...
Creating table auth_permission
Creating table auth_group
Creating table auth_user
Creating table auth_message
Creating table django_content_type
Creating table django_session
Creating table django_site
Installing index for auth.Permission model
Installing index for auth.Message model
EE..E...EEEEEEE..................
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ERROR: test_password_change_fails_with_invalid_old_password (django.contrib.auth.tests.views.ChangePasswordTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/tests/views.py", line 156, in test_password_change_fails_with_invalid_old_password
'new_password2': 'password1',
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 313, in post
response = self.request(**r)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 92, in get_response
response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py", line 78, in __call__
return self.view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/views.py", line 160, in password_change
}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/shortcuts/__init__.py", line 20, in render_to_response
return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs), **httpresponse_kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 103, in render_to_string
t = get_template(template_name)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 81, in get_template
source, origin = find_template_source(template_name)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 74, in find_template_source
raise TemplateDoesNotExist, name
TemplateDoesNotExist: registration/password_change_form.html
...
In total 10 tests failed. At first I thought this was wrong. There must be something wrong with my Django installation. I consulted the Django documentation on testing Django apps and all I could pick up was that when you run python manage.py test it runs the tests of all your INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file.
After a bit of searching, I saw a ticket was created for this and was closed with a wontfix resolution. It made sense since it is test cases that was not implemented yet. Doh! Test Driven Development.
I do think it could be useful if they added this to the Django docs as a note for n00bs like me.
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