Nearly all of the wall clock was password hashing: there was no test-time
PASSWORD_HASHERS override, so Django's PBKDF2 default (~1.2M iterations) ran on
every create_user and every login, hundreds of times over. The fix lives in a
DiscoverRunner subclass wired in via TEST_RUNNER rather than a "test" in
sys.argv sniff in settings: a runner is only ever instantiated by `manage.py
test`, so there is no env var to mis-set and no import path by which a deployed
process can reach the weak hasher. Verified: outside the runner the hasher is
still PBKDF2. It also enables the cached template loader (the runner forces
DEBUG off *after* settings are read, so Django never turns it on by itself) and
silences django.request, whose 4xx/5xx logging buried real test output.
Second, the fixtures. Base classes were rebuilding a club, season, admin user,
membership, role and MFA authenticator once per test; those are read-only for
almost every test, so they move to setUpTestData and are built once per class.
Django hands each test its own deep copy and the per-test transaction rolls the
rows back, so the handful of tests that mutate them stay isolated -- proved with
--shuffle, --reverse and --parallel rather than assumed. Per-test work that
genuinely must stay per-test (client sign-ins, waffle cache clears that leak
across the transaction boundary) is left in setUp with a comment saying why.
Five tests removed, each strictly subsumed by another that asserts a superset;
their intent was folded into a comment on the survivor. Regression-pinning
tests -- the ones carrying comments naming the exact bug they catch -- were
left verbatim throughout.
Also closes a real gap this surfaced: teams had a cross-club position test for
TeamMembership but not for StaffAssignment, with an unused `other_coach`
fixture sitting there waiting for it.
Rejected: --parallel by default (every worker re-runs all 88 migrations, buying
~4s of wall clock for ~5x the CPU), and disabling migrations in tests (~3.5s,
but the schema would then come from models and the suite would stop catching a
broken migration).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bernard Siebens
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