Alex Brett created CLOUDSTACK-7307: -------------------------------------- Summary: [Automation] Ability to instruct nosetests not to run tests which require the simulator Key: CLOUDSTACK-7307 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-7307 Project: CloudStack Issue Type: Improvement Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.) Components: Automation Affects Versions: 4.5.0 Reporter: Alex Brett Assignee: Alex Brett
There are a number of Marvin tests which only work if using the simulator, an example being test_deploy_vm_start_failure in test/integration/smoke/misc/test_deploy_vm.py When running tests via nosetests, we currently use a combination of the 'tags' and 'required_hardware' attributes to select the right tests to run. For example a KVM advanced zone BVT would run nosetests with {{-a tags=advanced}}, while a simulator test would do {{-a tags=advanced,required_hardware=false}}. An attempt at solving this issue has been made by setting the required_hardware attribute to "simulator only", e.g.: {noformat} @attr(tags = ['advanced'], required_hardware="simulator only") def test_deploy_vm_start_failure(self): {noformat} Unfortunately this is not practical from nosetests, as you can't do e.g. {{-a required_hardware!='simulator only'}}, as nosetests does not support this. The only way now to identify all appropriate tests would be to run it with something like {{-a tags=advanced,!required_hardware -a tags=advanced,required_hardware=false -a tags=advanced,required_hardware=true}}. This is both confusing, and potentially error prone as if someone adds an additional value to required_hardware, nosetests will miss it. In theory it is possible to achieve something using the {{-A}} argument to nosetests, however experimenting here shows that it would still end up being very confusing. I believe the solution is to add a new attribute "simulator_only", at which point a typical advanced zone BVT could be run with just {{-a tags=advanced,!simulator_only}}. I've prepared a patch which adds this attribute. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)