Pulled out some useful base classes for test cases

wiki/tests/base.py

+from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
+from django.test import TestCase
+from django.test.client import Client
+
+
+class WebTestBase(TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(TestCase, self).setUp()
+        try:
+            from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
+            User = get_user_model()
+        except ImportError:
+            from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+        User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'nobody@example.com', 'secret')
+        self.c = c = Client()
+        c.login(username='admin', password='secret')
+
+
+class ArticleTestBase(WebTestBase):
+    """Base class for web client tests, that sets up initial root article."""
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(ArticleTestBase, self).setUp()
+        response = self.c.post(reverse('wiki:root_create'), {'content': 'root article content', 'title': 'Root Article'}, follow=True)
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200) # sanity check
+        self.example_data = {
+                'content': 'The modified text',
+                'current_revision': '1',
+                'preview': '1',
+                #'save': '1',  # probably not too important
+                'summary': 'why edited',
+                'title': 'wiki test'}
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        super(ArticleTestBase, self).tearDown()
+        # clear Article cache before the next test
+        from wiki.models import Article
+        Article.objects.all().delete()
+
+    def get_by_path(self, path):
+        """Get the article response for the path.
+           Example:  self.get_by_path("Level1/Slug2/").title
+        """
+        return  self.c.get(reverse('wiki:get', kwargs={'path': path}))

wiki/tests/test_basic.py

 from __future__ import print_function
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from __future__ import absolute_import
+
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
-from django.test import TestCase
-from django.test.client import Client
 
 import pprint
 
-class InitialWebClientTest(TestCase):
-    """Tests by the dummy web client, with manual creating the root article."""
+from .base import ArticleTestBase, WebTestBase
 
-    def setUp(self):
-        try:
-            from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
-            User = get_user_model()
-        except ImportError:
-            from django.contrib.auth.models import User
-        
-        User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'nobody@example.com', 'secret')
-        self.c = c = Client()
-        c.login(username='admin', password='secret')
+class RootArticleViewTests(WebTestBase):
+    """Tests for creating/viewing the root article."""
 
     def test_root_article(self):
         """Test redirecting to /create-root/, creating the root article and a simple markup."""
@@ -33,37 +23,11 @@ class InitialWebClientTest(TestCase):
         self.assertContains(response, 'test heading h1</h1>')
 
 
-class WebClientTest(TestCase):
-    """Tests by the dummy web client."""
-    def setUp(self):
-        try:
-            from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
-            User = get_user_model()
-        except ImportError:
-            from django.contrib.auth.models import User
-        User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'nobody@example.com', 'secret')
-        self.c = c = Client()
-        c.login(username='admin', password='secret')
-        response = self.c.post(reverse('wiki:root_create'), {'content': 'root article content', 'title': 'Root Article'})
-        self.example_data = {
-                'content': 'The modified text',
-                'current_revision': '1',
-                'preview': '1',
-                #'save': '1',  # probably not too important
-                'summary': 'why edited',
-                'title': 'wiki test'}
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        # clear Article cache before the next test
-        from wiki.models import Article
-        Article.objects.all().delete()
-
-    def get_by_path(self, path):
-        """Get the article response for the path.
-           Example:  self.get_by_path("Level1/Slug2/").title
-        """
-        return  self.c.get(reverse('wiki:get', kwargs={'path': path}))
-    
+class ArticleViewTests(ArticleTestBase):
+    """
+    Tests for article views, assuming a root article already created.
+    """
+
     def dump_db_status(self, message=''):
         """Debug printing of the complete important database content."""
         print('*** db status *** {}'.format(message))