On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Sam Robertson <sam.robert...@citrix.com> wrote: > I know this has come up some in recent weeks on this list and even in > discussion locally. We are trying to extend CloudStack's existing Python > Testing Framework > (http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/QA/Python+testing+framework) to test the > new EC2 and S3 api's recently added > (http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/RelOps/EC2+API+support+in+CloudStack and > http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/RelOps/S3+API+in+CloudStack). > > As an initial cut, we are exploring using boto > (http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/index.html) and it's corresponding test > suite as a foundation (https://github.com/boto/boto/tree/develop/tests) for > our own test scripts.
Interesting - what about boto is more appealing than eutester or jclouds? > > Boto does not support SOAP api and we need to test both REST and SOAP api's > in CloudStack. My current thinking is to use the AWS tools provided by > Amazon (http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/Amazon-EC2/351) and call them > directly from our test scripts, which will satisfy our SOAP requirement, but > then we have two test scripts, one that uses boto and one that uses SOAP, > which will get messy/complex. The AWS tools have several problems in my mind. 1. They aren't open source 2. Even more troubling their license actually actively limits you to only using it for/with Amazon's service offering. Could we use euca2ools in it's place? --David
