Question on Testing in Chapter 4 about djangoforprofessionals

[repcsi]

I think you can, if there was an issue both solutions would probably point it out. I also added a test that reverse('home') points to / as from my earlier experience this worth checking:

def test_checkif_home_is_slash(self):  
        response_slash = self.client.get('/')  
        self.assertEqual(self.response.content, response_slash.content)

But basically "test_homepage_url_resolves_homepageview" does the same with more steps under the hood.

I'm also curious what @wsvincent thinks about this as he is more experienced.

[wsvincent]

Hi @repcsi and @shutteritch, I'm horribly late in response but finishing up the 4.0 update and wanted to weigh in here.

Testing is ultimately subjective. As long as something fails once it will trigger an error so I think there's nothing wrong with also adding a test for / if the home URL changes.

In the book we add tests right after doing code and I largely just give the tests and they pass. In reality, I was breaking things as I added new features and added tests along the way so it is unusual to have perfect tests all the time and it is normal and advised to add as many little things as you can think of. You can always have more tests.

Hope that helps! Thank you both for commenting and reading the book :)