An update on progress:

Ran 709 tests in 269.906s
FAILED (failures=1, errors=277)

The full log is attached with the email sent.

I grouped the "easier to spot" 277 errors in the categories below:

96 errors: AttributeError: 'SolrResponse' object has no attribute ...

Example failing test:

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ERROR: test_search_get_view_with_query_category (noodleapi.search.tests.test_views.FunctionalSearchTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/search/tests/test_views.py", line 44, in test_search_get_view_with_query_category
    HTTP_AUTHORIZATION='Bearer ' + self.token.token)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 473, in get
    response = super(Client, self).get(path, data=data, **extra)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 280, in get
    return self.request(**r)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 444, in request
    six.reraise(*exc_info)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 112, in get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 69, in view
    return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py", line 57, in wrapped_view
    return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 399, in dispatch
    response = self.handle_exception(exc)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 396, in dispatch
    response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/search/api/views.py", line 61, in get
    result = hsearch.search(query, category, start, rows)
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/noodlesearch/search/search.py", line 38, in search
    return result.refine_result(solr_request, solr_request.get_solr_query())
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/noodlesearch/search/result.py", line 14, in refine_result
    result['result'] = solr_obj.get_documents()
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/noodlesearch/solr.py", line 199, in get_documents
    return self.response.documents
AttributeError: 'SolrResponse' object has no attribute 'documents'

179 errors: No JSON object could be decoded

Because of line 21 in class SolrRequest at File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/noodlesearch/solr.py" Example:

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ERROR: test_insufficient_permission_upload (noodleapi.s3manager.tests.test_views.FunctionalS3ManagerTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mock.py", line 1201, in patched
    return func(*args, **keywargs)
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/s3manager/tests/test_views.py", line 45, in test_insufficient_permission_upload
    kwargs={'n_key': n_key})
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 532, in reverse
    return iri_to_uri(resolver._reverse_with_prefix(view, prefix, *args, **kwargs))
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 403, in _reverse_with_prefix
    self._populate()
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 267, in _populate
    for pattern in reversed(self.url_patterns):
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 365, in url_patterns
    patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 360, in urlconf_module
    self._urlconf_module = import_module(self.urlconf_name)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 40, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/urls.py", line 126, in <module>
    url(r'^search/', include('search.urls')),
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/urls/__init__.py", line 26, in include
    urlconf_module = import_module(urlconf_module)
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 40, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/search/urls.py", line 4, in <module>
    from search import views
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/search/views.py", line 5, in <module>
    from noodlesearch.search import categorysearch
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/noodlesearch/search/categorysearch.py", line 9, in <module>
    from noodlesearch.solr import SolrRequest
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/noodlesearch/solr.py", line 8, in <module>
    class SolrRequest(object):
  File "/home/travis/build/NoodleEducation/noodle-api/noodleapi/noodlesearch/solr.py", line 21, in SolrRequest
    ), data='{"wt":"python","showDefaults":"false", "includeDynamic":"false"}').json()['fields']
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 733, in json
    return json.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/python/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/opt/python/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 365, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/opt/python/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 383, in raw_decode
    raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

The other 4 errors, I'll track them and remove them once we're done with the above, since they'll be much easier to spot.