How TDD can be applied to Django Class based Generic Views?

Question

Since Class based Generic Views in Django involve some work by the framework I find very hard to work with them in a TDD style. Now I use the TestClient to access the view from

Answer 1

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but this is an example of how I try to unit test my views (untested code below):

import unittest
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.test.client import RequestFactory
from ..views import MyClassBasedView

class MyClassBasedViewTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.factory = RequestFactory()

    def test_list_view(self):
        request = self.factory.get(reverse('your_url'))
        # additional params can go after request
        response = MyClassBasedView.as_view()(request)
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

I'd also recommend looking at the documentation that Filip mentioned in his answer.