I have pushed a possible way we can fix this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1012179
Not sure I like the fix I have come up with though. Cheers, John > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berra...@redhat.com] > Sent: 11 June 2012 18:14 > To: John Garbutt > Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net; Monty Taylor > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Errors running individual tests that call into the > database > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:51:44PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:04:51PM +0100, John Garbutt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to run tests like "test_xenapi" and "test_libvirt" by > > > themselves do things like: > > > nosetests test_xenapi > > > But it does work, I get DB errors relating to missing tables. > > > However, I can successfully run all the tests. > > > > > > The way I understand it: > > > - nova.tests.__init__.py setup() does the database setup > > > - nova.test.py TestCase.setUp() does the resetting of the db > > > It is almost like doing "nosetests test_asdf" skips the database > > > setup in nova.tests.__init__.py, is that correct? > > > > > > Any ideas on how to run tests individually, but still get the > > > database correclty initialized? Am I just calling the tests incorrectly? > > > > I don't know the answer to your question, but I found this regression > > in functionality was caused by the following commit: > > > > commit cf31b789927cedfd08c67dcf207b4a10ce2b1db6 > > Author: Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> > > Date: Sun Jun 3 13:03:21 2012 -0400 > > > > Finalize tox config. > > > > Shrink tox.ini to the new short version. > > Fix the test cases to be able to be run in nosetets plus the > > openstack.nose_plugin, which finally removes the need for > > nova/testing/runner.py > > Also, now we'll just output directly to stdout, which will > > make nose collect the trace logging directly and either output > > it at the end of the run, or inject it into the xunit output > > appropriately. > > > > Change-Id: I1456e18a11a840145492038108bdfe812c8230d1 > > > > Before that commit, it was possible to just invoke something like > > > > ./run_tests.sh -N -P test_libvirt > > > > from the nova top level GIT directory to run an individual test suite. > > After examining that commit I discovered that the old testing/runner.py file > have a bit of magic to auto-prefix nova.tests onto any args: > > # If any argument looks like a test name but doesn't have "nova.tests" in > # front of it, automatically add that so we don't have to type as much > for i, arg in enumerate(argv): > if arg.startswith('test_'): > argv[i] = 'nova.tests.%s' % arg > > Since we lost this, you now have to fully specify the names of the individual > tests you want to run. eg this works for me: > > ./run_tests.sh -N -P nova.tests.test_libvirt > > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
