AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'tests'

Question

I'm running this command:

python manage.py test project.apps.app1.tests 

and it causes this error:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'tests'

Below is my directory structure. I've also added app1 to my installed apps config.

Traceback (most recent call last):     File "manage.py", line 10, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)     File "/home/username/local/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 385, in execute_from_command_line     utility.execute()     File "/home/username/local/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 377, in execute     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)     File "/home/username/local/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/test.py", line 50, in run_from_argv     super(Command, self).run_from_argv(argv)     File "/home/username/local/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 288, in run_from_argv     self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)     File "/home/username/local/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/test.py", line 71, in execute     super(Command, self).execute(*args, **options)     File "/home/username/local/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 338, in execute     output = self.handle(*args, **options)     File "/home/username/local/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/test.py", line 88, in handle     failures = test_runner.run_tests(test_labels)     File "/home/username/local/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/runner.py", line 146, in run_tests     suite = self.build_suite(test_labels, extra_tests)     File "/home/username/local/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/runner.py", line 66, in build_suite     tests = self.test_loader.loadTestsFromName(label)     File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 100, in loadTestsFromName     parent, obj = obj, getattr(obj, part)     AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'tests' 

Directory structure:

Answer 1

I finally figured it out working on another problem. The problem was that my test couldn't find an import.

It looks like you get the above error if your test fails to import. This makes sense because the test suite can't import a broken test. At least I think this is what is going on because I fixed the import within my test file and sure enough it started working.

To validate your test case just try import the test case file in python console.

Example:

from project.apps.app1.tests import * 

Answer 2

Use:

./manage.py shell

followed by

import myapp.tests

to find the nature of the import error.