Django settings are not loaded when running tests
Make sure that in the test you import the settings like this:
from django.conf import settings
I have different settings for different environments for my application, such as local, dev, stage, production. So, when I run my apps, say, locally, I pass the settings as the parameter to manage.py, e.g. python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080 --settings=myapp.settings.local, and indeed all my settings are correctly initialised, e.g. DEBUG is True as it is set in my settings file, and not False as it is in defaultsettings.py.
However, when I try to run tests with python3 manage.py test --settings=myapp.settings.local, the value of DEBUG is set to false, that is it is loaded from defaultsettings.py. Why does that happen and how can I fix this?