In-Memory broker for celery unit tests

You can specify the broker_backend in your settings :

if 'test' in sys.argv[1:]:
    BROKER_BACKEND = 'memory'
    CELERY_TASK_ALWAYS_EAGER = True
    CELERY_TASK_EAGER_PROPAGATES = True

or you can override the settings with a decorator directly in your test

import unittest
from django.test.utils import override_settings


class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    @override_settings(CELERY_TASK_EAGER_PROPAGATES=True,
                       CELERY_TASK_ALWAYS_EAGER=True,
                       BROKER_BACKEND='memory')
    def test_mytask(self):
        ...