Django Unit Testing Limit the number of tests executed
Example
It is possible to limit the tests executed by manage.py test by specifying which modules should be discovered by the test runner:
# Run only tests for the app names "app1"
$ python manage.py test app1
# If you split the tests file into a module with several tests files for an app
$ python manage.py test app1.tests.test_models
# it's possible to dig down to individual test methods.
$ python manage.py test app1.tests.test_models.MyTestCase.test_something
If you want to run a bunch of tests you can pass a pattern of filenames. For example, you may want to run only tests that involving of your models:
$ python manage.py test -p test_models*
Creating test database for alias 'default'...
.................................................
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Ran 115 tests in 3.869s
OK
Finally, it is possible to stop the test suite at the first fail, using --failfast. This argument allows to get quickly the potential error encountered in the suite:
$ python manage.py test app1
...F..
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Ran 6 tests in 0.977s
FAILED (failures=1)
$ python manage.py test app1 --failfast
...F
======================================================================
[Traceback of the failing test]
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Ran 4 tests in 0.372s
FAILED (failures=1)
