Best way to test components?

[liamlawless35]

Ok, so when i want to send a request to a view in normal django, all I do is self.client.post('url here'). With Django unicorn, the best way I could find was to import the component and create an instance of the class with something like test_class = TestUnicornView("various kwargs here", then test each method with test_class.test_method(). It works fine, but it feels super inelegant and hamfisted compared to a simple self.client.post.

Is this a good method for testing? How do you guys do it?