15th January 2023 - Link Blog
How to simulate a broken database connection for testing in Django (via) Neil Kakkar explores the options using unittest.patch() and then settles on a neater pattern using “with connection.execute_wrapper(QueryTimeoutWrapper()):” to simulate the exact exception he needs to test against.
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