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Takashi NATSUME 7e877c4fdb Fix changes-before values in an instance action test 
In some DBMSs (e.g. MySQL 5.7 (*1)), fractions (millisecond and
microsecond) of DateTime column is not stored by default.

*1: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/date-and-time-type-overview.html

Fix specifying the 'changes-before' values
in the functional test for the 'instance-action-list' command.

Change-Id: I79e80088bcbf559a58aa90a831b54017af310a26
Closes-Bug: #1817064
2019-02-27 00:44:22 +00:00
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api Remove deprecated network APIs 2017-04-03 13:17:25 -04:00
hooks [ci] Use pseudo-random names for new resources 2017-11-23 16:52:04 +00:00
v2 Fix changes-before values in an instance action test 2019-02-27 00:44:22 +00:00
__init__.py First pass at tempest_lib based functional testing 2015-01-28 15:44:43 -08:00
base.py Replace os-client-config to openstacksdk 2018-08-14 03:05:18 +00:00
clouds.yaml.sample Update clouds.yaml.sample 2016-07-11 15:53:55 -04:00
README.rst Fix running functional tests against deployment with insecure SSL 2016-02-08 17:51:47 +01:00
test_auth.py [CLI] Fix token auth type 2018-04-19 18:43:45 +00:00

README.rst

python-novaclient functional testing

Idea

Over time we have noticed two issues with novaclient unit tests.

  • Does not exercise the CLI
  • We can get the expected server behavior wrong, and test the wrong thing.

We are using functional tests, run against a running cloud (primarily devstack), to address these two cases.

Additionally these functional tests can be considered example uses of python-novaclient.

These tests started out in tempest as read only nova CLI tests, to make sure the CLI didn't simply stacktrace when being used (which happened on multiple occasions).

Testing Theory

We are treating python-novaclient as legacy code, so we do not want to spend a lot of effort adding in missing features. In the future the CLI will move to python-openstackclient, and the python API will be based on the OpenStack SDK project. But until that happens we still need better functional testing, to prevent regressions etc.

Since python-novaclient has two uses, CLI and python API, we should have two sets of functional tests. CLI and python API. The python API tests should never use the CLI. But the CLI tests can use the python API where adding native support to the CLI for the required functionality would involve a non trivial amount of work.

Functional Test Guidelines

  • Consume credentials via standard client environmental variables:

    OS_USERNAME
OS_PASSWORD
OS_TENANT_NAME
OS_AUTH_URL

  • Usage of insecure SSL can be configured via the standard client environment variable:

    OS_INSECURE

  • Try not to require an additional configuration file