He probably meant integration tests. Generally the standard practice in Django is to do integration testing at various levels. 1) Test the model with an in-memory database, or real database with rollbacks at the end of every test. 2) Test the views, generally using the actual models and db. I don't ever use mocks much when testing a Django project.
It wouldn't be too much trouble to mock the model when testing the views, but I don't bother and I don't imagine anyone else does either.
It wouldn't be too much trouble to mock the model when testing the views, but I don't bother and I don't imagine anyone else does either.