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Let's assume you have a repository layout for your app like this:

|-\ django_app/
| |- __init__.py
| |- models.py
| |- etc ...
|
|-\ django_app_tests/
| |-\ test_app
| | |- models.py
| | |- etc ...
| |- manage.py
| |- settings.py
| |- etc ...
|
|- setup.py

You would usually run your tests with:

cd django_app_tests
python manage.py test test_app

Right? Now lets create a new file django_app_tests/runtests.py:

# This file mainly exists to allow python setup.py test to work.
import os, sys
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'django_app_tests.settings'
test_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
sys.path.insert(0, test_dir)

from django.test.utils import get_runner
from django.conf import settings

def runtests():
    TestRunner = get_runner(settings)
    test_runner = TestRunner(verbosity=1, interactive=True)
    failures = test_runner.run_tests(['test_app'])
    sys.exit(bool(failures))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    runtests()

This will make running tests a bit easier:

cd django_app_tests
python runtests.py

Now lets tell setuptools what it should do when you call setup.py test. Go to your setup.py file and add test_suite='django_app_tests.runtests.runtests to the setup() function.

Thats it -- now you can run your app tests with python setup.py test.