Plugin testing takes way too long

[sup...@schynet.com]

When writing unit tests for plugins similar to how the onboarding plugin does, tests take minutes to complete. This is because the test will fire up the container, create the test db, then run the tests. Is there a quicker method for running the tests? Would it be okay to just docker exec manage.py test {app}? 

[Glenn Matthews]

In general that *should* work; additionally you can save a lot of time on *re*runs of the test if you use `manage.py test {app} --keepdb` so that it saves the baseline test DB between test runs instead of destroying and recreating it every time.

Hope this helps,

Glenn

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 5:12 PM sup...@schynet.com <sup...@schynet.com> wrote:

When writing unit tests for plugins similar to how the onboarding plugin does, tests take minutes to complete. This is because the test will fire up the container, create the test db, then run the tests. Is there a quicker method for running the tests? Would it be okay to just docker exec manage.py test {app}? 

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