Simon Willison’s Weblog

13th March 2025 - Link Blog

Smoke test your Django admin site. Justin Duke demonstrates a neat pattern for running simple tests against your internal Django admin site: introspect every admin route via django.urls.get_resolver() and loop through them with @pytest.mark.parametrize to check they all return a 200 HTTP status code.

This catches simple mistakes with the admin configuration that trigger exceptions that might otherwise go undetected.

I rarely write automated tests against my own admin sites and often feel guilty about it. I wrote some notes on testing it with pytest-django fixtures a few years ago.