Example using the WebTest client for Django tests

gistfile1.py

from django.test import TestCase
from django_webtest import WebTest

"""
WebTest rocks. You should check it out:
http://webtest.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-webtest
"""


class TraditionalTest()
    """
    Traditional way of testig a Django form, which
    does not test the form's HTML at all. The Django
    view is called directly via `self.client.post()`
    without ever checking if the form's HTML code
    actually works. Therefore no potential bugs in
    the form's HTML will ever get caught by this test.
    """
    response = self.client.post(reverse('contact'), {
        'subject': 'aaa',
        'message': 'bbb',
    })
    # ...


class BetterTest(WebTest):
    """
    This test does exactly the same except it also
    validates the form's HTML code (as if rendered by a
    real browser). So, any HTML bug preventing the actual
    form from working properly will cause this test to fail.
    The CSRF token will also be checked.
    """
    form = self.app.get(reverse('contact')).form
    form['subject'] = 'aaa'
    form['message'] = 'bbb'
    response = form.submit()
    # ...