from django.contrib.staticfiles.handlers import StaticFilesHandler from django.test import LiveServerTestCase class StaticLiveServerTestCase(LiveServerTestCase): """ Extend django.test.LiveServerTestCase to transparently overlay at test execution-time the assets provided by the staticfiles app finders. This means you don't need to run collectstatic before or as a part of your tests setup. """ static_handler = StaticFilesHandler