How to test custom template tags in Django?

This is a short passage of one of my test files, where self.render_template a simple helper method in the TestCase is:

    rendered = self.render_template(
        '{% load templatequery %}'
        '{% displayquery django_templatequery.KeyValue all() with "list.html" %}'
    )
    self.assertEqual(rendered,"foo=0\nbar=50\nspam=100\negg=200\n")

    self.assertRaises(
        template.TemplateSyntaxError,
        self.render_template,
        '{% load templatequery %}'
        '{% displayquery django_templatequery.KeyValue all() notwith "list.html" %}'
    )

It is very basic and uses blackbox testing. It just takes a string as template source, renders it and checks if the output equals the expected string.

The render_template method is quite simplistic:

from django.template import Context, Template

class MyTest(TestCase):
    def render_template(self, string, context=None):
        context = context or {}
        context = Context(context)
        return Template(string).render(context)

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