Django: Why does this test fail? - django

Question

I an new to Django and to Test Driven Devolopment as well.
After working through the tutorials in the 1.11 official documentation
I am starting my first app: wos_2017_2
This test fails and I cannot figure out why:
import unittest
from django.test import TestCase
from django.test import Client
from .models import *
from .views import *
class SimpleTest(unittest.TestCase):
def test_index(self):
client = Client()
response = client.get('/')
self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
FAIL: test_index (wos_2017_2.tests.SimpleTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/js/django/wos/wos_2017_2/tests.py", line 16, in test_index
self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
AssertionError: 404 != 200
This link in the browser works without a problem:
http://localhost:8000/wos_2017_2/
In the shell (run from the project root):
>>> from django.test import Client
>>> client = Client()
>>> response = client.get('/')
>>> response = client.get('wos_2017_2/index')
Not Found: /wos_2017_2index
>>> response = client.get('wos_2017_2/')
Not Found: /wos_2017_2
>>> response = client.get('/wos_2017_2/')
>>> response = client.get('/wos_2017_2/index/')
Not Found: /wos_2017_2/index/
>>> response = client.get('/wos_2017_2/')
>>> response.status_code
200
in wos_2017_1.urls.py:
from . import views
from django.conf.urls import url
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
]

Answer 1

client.get('/') is failing because you haven't defined a URL pattern for ^$ in your root url config (the one in the same directory as your settings.py).
You have included your urls with:
url(r'^wos_2017_2/', include('wos_2017_2.urls')),
and in that urls you have
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
Therefore in your test you should use response = client.get('/wos_2017_2/')