Use importlib.util module instead of imp, since it's
being deprecated:
DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of
importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
Had to change test setup to call super() first to get around a
config issue I was seeing locally, causing the entire class of
tests to fail:
oslo_config.cfg.NoSuchOptError: no such option api_extensions_path
in group [DEFAULT]
Closes-bug: #1981077
Change-Id: Ic171028a661c3f9f83f6758a57aaeab4450aa907