Running Django tests in PyCharm

Question

I am trying to run a simple Django test in PyCharm, but its failing with the following stack trace-

/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/bin/python /opt/pycharm-3.0.2/helpers/pycharm/django_test_manage.py test snippets.SimpleTest.test_simple /home/ramashishb/mine/learn/django-rest/django-rest-tutorial
Testing started at 4:37 PM ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/pycharm-3.0.2/helpers/pycharm/django_test_manage.py", line 18, in <module>
    import django_test_runner
  File "/opt/pycharm-3.0.2/helpers/pycharm/django_test_runner.py", line 14, in <module>
    from django.test.testcases import TestCase
  File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from django.test.client import Client, RequestFactory
  File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 11, in <module>
    from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, logout, get_user_model
  File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from django.middleware.csrf import rotate_token
  File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/middleware/csrf.py", line 14, in <module>
    from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers
  File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/cache.py", line 26, in <module>
    from django.core.cache import get_cache
  File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/cache/__init__.py", line 69, in <module>
    if DEFAULT_CACHE_ALIAS not in settings.CACHES:
  File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 54, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
  File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 47, in _setup
    % (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting CACHES, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

Process finished with exit code 1

The test runs fine on console using- ./manage.py run test It looks like things are not setup before executing the tests?

Any idea?

Thanks, Ram

Have you enabled Django support in the pycharm project settings, and told it which settings file to use? — Thomas, Dec 06 '13 at 05:51
Yes. Django support is enabled. I found I had to set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE explicitly for the tests to work. — Ramashish Baranwal, Dec 30 '13 at 15:29

score 32 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '13 at 09:25

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Go to menu file > settings > Django Support and select correct settings file.

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answered Dec 30 '13 at 09:25

Jan Míšek

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Thanks Jan. I found I had to explicitly set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE in Run/Debug configurations for the tests to run. – Ramashish Baranwal Dec 30 '13 at 15:31
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I had to delete existing Python unittest run configurations for the tests I was trying to run before I could run them as Django tests. I did not need to set any environment variables. – Nathan Jan 06 '14 at 22:11
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Is it possible to run Django tests in Pycharm community edition (where there's no Django plugin)? (With more integrated way than just running `manage.py test` as Run configuration) – kolen Dec 08 '14 at 11:24
In Intellij IDEA, this is in the project settings, but yes, this is the solution! – mlissner Mar 31 '16 at 19:02
Just in case this helps someone else: When setting the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE in Run/Debug configuration in IntelliJ IDEA, you shouldn't specify settings.py but instead just settings because importing by file path is not supported. – Henok Getachew Apr 14 '16 at 07:02
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@kolen If you're still interested (after 2+ years :d ), I just found a way (workaround) to run them via right-click: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42989471/run-debug-a-django-applications-unittests-from-the-mouse-right-click-context-me – CristiFati Mar 24 '17 at 20:22
7 years later this post just concluded hours of search...I was getting a strange ContentTypes model not in INSTALLED_APPS error when trying to run my test with pycharm. – Karnalta Feb 14 '20 at 19:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 03 '19 at 20:27

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I was experiencing the same problem. I found that I was running the wrong type of test.

import unittest
class MySampleTest(unittest.TestCase):

Cause the error

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting API_BASE_URL, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

Changing to the import to

from django.test import SimpleTestCase

Class MySampleTest(SimpleTestCase):

allowed my test to run from within pycharm.

edited Apr 03 '19 at 20:27

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answered Apr 03 '19 at 18:50

John Boufford

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This does not answer the question, SimpleTestCase is used when you want to disable database queries by default and run non-db tests. Ref: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/testing/tools/#simpletestcase - PyCharm triggers these tests by default as python tests and not django test. – Deep Jun 23 '19 at 07:22

Running Django tests in PyCharm

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