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pingvincible • Edited

Hi! Great article! I'm trying to write serializer tests for my code. When I call
assert serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)

my test_serialized_data asks for database connection.
But I don't want to do it because it is unit test.
Also I cannot mock is_valid method, because I'm testing it.
What should I do to avoid database connection?