Comment by Evgeny for Hello,I'm preparing some customizations that might go a bit deeper than skin customization. Therefore I'm investigating the tests found in askbot/tests. However, I don't find any obvious way to run them (I see there's a tox specification file in there, though). Are there descriptions somewhere on how to run them? And if I get them running, how much of the test suites are expected to pass?Edit: here's my settings.py:## Django settings for ASKBOT enabled project. import os.path import logging import sys import askbot #this line is added so that we can import pre-packaged askbot dependencies sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(askbot.__file__), 'deps')) DEBUG = False#set to True to enable debugging TEMPLATE_DEBUG = False#keep false when debugging jinja2 templates INTERNAL_IPS = ('127.0.0.1',) ADMINS = ( ('Your Name', 'your_email@domain.com'), ) MANAGERS = ADMINS DATABASE_ENGINE = 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' # only postgres (>8.3) and mysql are supported so far others have not been tested yet DATABASE_NAME = ':memory:' # Or path to database file if using sqlite3. DATABASE_USER = '' # Not used with sqlite3. DATABASE_PASSWORD = '' # Not used with sqlite3. DATABASE_HOST = '' # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3. DATABASE_PORT = '' # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3. #outgoing mail server settings SERVER_EMAIL = '' DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '' EMAIL_HOST_USER = '' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '' EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '' EMAIL_HOST='' EMAIL_PORT='' EMAIL_USE_TLS=False EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' #incoming mail settings #after filling out these settings - please #go to the site's live settings and enable the feature #"Email settings" -> "allow asking by email" # # WARNING: command post_emailed_questions DELETES all # emails from the mailbox each time # do not use your personal mail box here!!! # IMAP_HOST = '' IMAP_HOST_USER = '' IMAP_HOST_PASSWORD = '' IMAP_PORT = '' IMAP_USE_TLS = False # Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here: # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name # although not all choices may be available on all operating systems. # On Unix systems, a value of None will cause Django to use the same # timezone as the operating system. # If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your # system time zone. TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago' SITE_ID = 1 # If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not # to load the internationalization machinery. USE_I18N = True LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en' # Absolute path to the directory that holds media. # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/" ASKBOT_FILE_UPLOAD_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'askbot', 'upfiles') PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__) # URL prefix for admin media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a # trailing slash. # Examples: "http://foo.com/media/", "/media/". ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/admin/media/' # Make up some unique string, and don't share it with anybody. SECRET_KEY = 'sdljdfjkldsflsdjkhsjkldgjlsdgfs s ' # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources. TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source', 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source', #below is askbot stuff for this tuple 'askbot.skins.loaders.filesystem_load_template_source', #'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source', ) MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( #'django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', #'django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware', 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', #'django ...(more)

Try using on-disk database, not `:memory:` and before running the tests do `python manage.py syncdb --migrate`, I've just tried your setup and found out that with in-memory database the test runner does not work.