Simulating the passing of time in unittesting

Question

I\'ve built a paywalled CMS + invoicing system for a client and I need to get more stringent with my testing.

I keep all my data in a Django ORM and have a bunch of Cele

Answer 1

Without the use of a special mock library, I propose to prepare the code for being in mock-up-mode (probably by a global variable). In mock-up-mode instead of calling the normal time-function (like time.time() or whatever) you could call a mock-up time-function which returns whatever you need in your special case.

I would vote down for changing the system time. That does not seem like a unit test but rather like a functional test as it cannot be done in parallel to anything else on that machine.