Testing a reusable app which uses a database

I try to make a reusable app which uses transaction.atomic().

When I run my test.py (below) for my reusable app, I get the below errors.

Is it possible to test this reusable app outside of a Django project?

[[[
import unittest
from transaction_utils.transaction import retry


class TestRetry(unittest.TestCase):
    @retry
    def my_func(self):
        return 123

    def test_passthrough(self):
        self.assertEqual(self.my_func(), 123)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()
]]]

[[[
E
======================================================================
ERROR: test_passthrough (__main__.TestRetry)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 11, in test_passthrough
    self.assertEqual(self.my_func(), 123)
  File "/home/porton/Projects/transaction_utils/transaction_utils/transaction.py", line 24, in func_wrapper
    with transaction.atomic():
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/transaction.py", line 152, in __enter__
    connection = get_connection(self.using)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/transaction.py", line 21, in get_connection
    return connections[using]
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 208, in __getitem__
    self.ensure_defaults(alias)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 176, in ensure_defaults
    conn = self.databases[alias]
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 35, in __get__
    res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 156, in databases
    self._databases = settings.DATABASES
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 53, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 39, in _setup
    % (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting DATABASES, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.001s

FAILED (errors=1)
]]]

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