from django.conf import settings from django.db import connections from django.test import TestCase class DatabaseSettingTestCase(TestCase): def setUp(self): settings.DATABASES['__test_db'] = { 'DATABASE_ENGINE': 'sqlite3', 'DATABASE_NAME': ':memory:', } def tearDown(self): del settings.DATABASES['__test_db'] def test_db_connection(self): connections['default'].cursor() connections['__test_db'].cursor()