Introducing factory-boy in django-oscar

[Andrea Grandi]

Hi everyone!

Today I was talking on #django-oscar IRC channel with maikhoepfel and linovia about the possibility to use factory-boy to generate data for unit tests.
If anyone of you doesn't know exactly what factory-boy is, you can give a look to a very short presentation I prepared few weeks ago: https://speakerdeck.com/andreagrandi/factoryboy-creating-data-for-unit-tests-in-an-easy-way

Before starting to work on it (well.. actually I already started, but in a personal branch, just to experiment...) and opening a issue ticket on GitHub, I wanted to announce/present it here, so if anyone has any objection, suggestion etc.... I can get it from now.

So, please, any comment, critic, suggestion is more than welcome :)

Cheers.

[Sebastian Vetter]

Hi Andrea,

I think that's a great idea. I've used factory boy for test of Oscar extensions
 that I've worked on as well as some of our projects. I've actually started a
separate project on github with some generic factories. Feel free to grab
any of those that you can make use of. The repo is:

https://github.com/elbaschid/django-oscar-sweatshop

The factories there might not be the best for all cases as it still is a work in
progress but some might be a good starting point.

Cheers,
Seb

[Maik Hoepfel]

Andi,

as discussed, I'm looking forward to this!

To give some background, django-dynamic-fixture is not Python 3
compatible and doesn't look like it will be anytime soon. That's why
we're looking at alternatives.

Cheers,

Maik

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Hi Maik,

I'm very glad to have found a nice task to work on :)

I have already started working on my own branch and I can anticipate
you that there is a little libraries conflict when yoou try to "pip
install factory_boy", basically I had setuptools 0.6 installed in my
virtualenv. I upgraded both "pip" and "setuptools" and then I was able
to install "factory_boy" package without any problem. To verify that
everything was still working I ran the tests and they all passed.

p.s: I have started migrating a couple of tests to use the new factory
and.... they works :)
if you want to give it a preliminary look, my repository is here
https://github.com/andreagrandi/django-oscar/tree/factoryboy

Looking forward to send you the pull request :)

Cheers.

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[Andrea Grandi]

First pull request is ready to be reviewed https://github.com/tangentlabs/django-oscar/pull/1192

Cheers.