extend django test liveservertestcase to transparently overlay at test executiontime 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 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
from django.contrib.staticfiles.handlers import StaticFilesHandler
from django.test import LiveServerTestCase


class StaticLiveServerTestCase(LiveServerTestCase):
    

    static_handler = StaticFilesHandler