
Starting in Queens with the 1.28 microversion, resource_providers table has the root_provider_id column. Older resource_providers with no root provider id records will be online migrated when accessed via the REST API or when the "placement-manage db online_data_migrations" command is run during an upgrade. This status check emits a warning if there are missing root provider ids to remind operators to perform the data migration. Note that normally we would not add an upgrade status check to simply mirror an online data migration since online data migrations should be part of deploying/upgrading placement automation. However, with placement being freshly extracted from nova, this check serves as a friendly reminder. Change-Id: I503c7d4e829407175992a90002646110aa9a323f
OpenStack Placement Testing Infrastructure
This README file attempts to provides some brief guidance for writing tests when fixing bugs or adding features to placement.
For a lot more information see the contributor docs.
Test Types: Unit vs. Functional vs. Integration
Placement tests are divided into three types:
- Unit: tests which confirm the behavior of individual pieces of the code (individual methods or classes) with minimal dependency on other code or on externals like the database.
- Functional: tests which confirm a chunk of behavior, end to end, such as an HTTP endpoint accepting a body from a request and returning the expected response but without reliance on code or services that are external to placement.
- Integration: tests that confirm that things work with other services, such as nova.
Placement uses all three, but the majority are functional tests. This is the result of the fairly direct architecture of placement: It is a WSGI application that talks to a database.
Writing Unit Tests
Placement unit tests are based on the TestCase
that
comes with the testtools
package. Use mocks only as
necessary. If you find that you need multiple mocks to make a test for
the code you are testing may benefit from being refactored to smaller
units.
Writing Functional Tests
There are two primary classes of functional test in placement:
- Testing database operations. These are based on
placement.tests.functional.base.TestCase
which is responsible for starting an in-memory database and a reasonable minimal configuration. - Testing the HTTP API using gabbi.
Writing Integration Tests
Placement configures its gate and check jobs via the
.zuul.yaml
file in the root of the code repository. Some of
the entries in that file configure integration jobs, many of which use
tempest.