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>  
>
>>
>> I discovered that rspec is able to have tags on describe/context/it and 
>> filter it with maybe "rspec --tag liveacceptance:true" to only include the 
>> relevant tests.
>>
>
> You would definitely want to be careful on how to structure your tests. 
> Any tests with `apply_manifest` or the like would need to be separate from 
> any assertions. Perhaps even in separate test files, as `rspec` can take a 
> list of *_spec.rb files to run, and you could run something like `rspec 
> spec/acceptance/1_puppet_apply/ spec/acceptance/2_assert/` under normal 
> testing circumstances, and `rspec spec/acceptance/2_assert/` when you only 
> want to run your assertions.
>

Splitting into 2 files would mean not having all dependent tests in 1 file. 
 I'm not sure if this is the way to go.
 

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>> Is it somehow possible to do this with beaker-rspec?
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> Also, I would like to point out that your use case is EXACTLY what 
> http://serverspec.org/ is created to do: assertions without modifying the 
> system. Serverspec is included with beaker-rspec, but perhaps it would be 
> better to just skip the beaker part altogether on the live systems, but use 
> it to configure the test systems as described above with the 1_* 2_* 
> directories?
>

For now i've started checking for a env variable LIVESYSTEM=true inside the 
test_spec.rb and then include the serverspec spec_helper.rb instead of the 
puppetlabs spec_helper_acceptance.rb. Inside the test_spec.rb i've flagged 
the beaker related tests with beakeronly. Then I can run the tests without 
the beaker specific tests: "LIVESYSTEM=true rspec --tag ~beakeronly 
spec/acceptance/test_spec.rb" . 

we then want to distribute the test files to every client with the profile 
applied to have the ability to run the tests as needed by the operations 
people.

- Thomas

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