Some people waste a lot of time testing Django applications only with Selenium. No, I don’t think that you should not use Selenium to test Django applications, I just wanna show that nobody needs to use Selenium for all webtests in Django.

Selenium drives a browser, so you can have true test results on navigation, but Selenium is not needed to test a page title or a response status code, for example. Selenium tests are powerful, but slow, so you can preserve them to use when you really need, and use more simple and fast tools to more simple and fast tests. Continue reading →