Unit testing Django model mixins

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I recently found myself having to unit test some model mixins and I thought I would share the technique I used in case anyone else finds it useful. You could just pick a model which uses the mixin and run the test on instances of that model. But the goal of a mixin is to provide reusable functionality independent of any model. Instead, we create a dummy model we can use for testing. The model…

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