reorganized and reclassified old 'unit tests' for ea. app into dirs for UTs & ITs; abandoning effort to refactor any test_views into UTs; all tests passing

src/apps/dashboard/tests/unit/test_forms.py

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+from django.test import SimpleTestCase
+
+from apps.dashboard.forms import (
+    EMPTY_ITEM_ERROR,
+    ItemForm,
+)
+
+
+class SimpleItemFormTest(SimpleTestCase):
+    def test_form_validation_for_blank_items(self):
+        form = ItemForm(data={"text": ""})
+        self.assertFalse(form.is_valid())
+        self.assertEqual(form.errors["text"], [EMPTY_ITEM_ERROR])

src/apps/dashboard/tests/unit/test_models.py

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+from django.test import SimpleTestCase
+
+from apps.dashboard.models import Item
+
+
+class SimpleItemModelTest(SimpleTestCase):
+    def test_default_text(self):
+        item = Item()
+        self.assertEqual(item.text, "")
+
+    def test_string_representation(self):
+        item = Item(text="sample text")
+        self.assertEqual(str(item), "sample text")