On Jan 31, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Likitha Shetty <likitha.she...@citrix.com> wrote:

> I would like to add that all the patches that have been submitted for review 
> (corresponding to the supported EC2 API's) have been extensively tested using 
> boto scripts and the AWS Java SDK. For e.g. for patch 
> https://reviews.apache.org/r/8480/ (EC2AttachVolume) the following manual 
> tests were performed,
> 
> 1.       Attach volume to an existing instance
> 
> 2.       Attach volume to multiple instances
> 
> 3.       Attach volume using invalid values for each of the parameters - 
> invalid instance id, invalid device id, instance id corresponding to a vm in 
> the invalid state
> 
> And for every test the response and behavior was verified against AWS EC2 
> document.
> 
> I also see that some work has been going on to automate EC2 testing using ec2 
> test suite provided by jClouds [1]. I will let Anshul speak more on that.
> 
> 
> 
> We don't currently have a unit test framework in place for AWSAPI. To write 
> unit tests for the patches that were sent for EC2 Query API, an attempt was 
> made at writing the framework.
> 
> But I faced the following issues -  for some of the internal classes there is 
> no way to access the member variables so we can pass in a mock (for e.g. a 
> setter method or a constructor which takes a parameter). And all of the 
> internal classes of awsapi don't follow any CloudStack manager/dao design and 
> hence cannot be injected using MockComponentLocator. So, we could instead try 
> to mock CloudStack servlet and return dummy responses to awsapi http calls. 
> But as Prachi mentioned this would need some more analysis and time to code.
> 
> 
> 
> With the above in consideration, is it possible to commit these patches to 
> master for 4.1 while we continue to work on writing a unit-test framework for 
> AWSAPI?

+1


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> [1] 
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cloudstack-dev/201210.mbox/%3C7914B38A4445B34AA16EB9F1352942F1012F109D6278%40SJCPMAILBOX01.citrite.net%3E
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> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Likitha
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prachi Damle [mailto:prachi.da...@citrix.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:29 AM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: [DISCUSS] EC2 QUERY API Pending Merge
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I have reviewed the patches for the  [EC2 Query API] support in awsapi and 
> they look good. However there are no unit tests added [like many other 
> feature branches].
> 
> So the merge of these patches is pending.
> 
> 
> 
> Should I merge them to master, since  4.1 release may miss out EC2 Query API 
> support.
> 
> Given that EC2 Soap API is being deprecated by AWS, this feature is 
> definitely a value-add to apache 4.1 release IMHO.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I understand that since awsapi holds most of its logic in a servlet and calls 
> CloudStack over http, writing unit tests to mock up the servletcontainer and 
> a mock CloudStack servlet is a bigger task.
> 
> 
> 
> So Is it reasonable to commit these patches to master for 4.1 and develop a 
> unit-test framework for awsapi in the coming bug fixing phase?
> 
> Please comment.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Prachi
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