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27th May 2009 - Link Blog

Testing Django Views for Concurrency Issues. Neat decorator for executing a Django view under high concurrency in your unit tests, to help spot errors caused by database race conditions that should be executed inside a transaction.

Posted 27th May 2009 at 10:01 am

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