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Tempest - The OpenStack Integration Test Suite
The documentation for Tempest is officially hosted at: https://docs.openstack.org/tempest/latest/
This is a set of integration tests to be run against a live OpenStack cluster. Tempest has batteries of tests for OpenStack API validation, Scenarios, and other specific tests useful in validating an OpenStack deployment.
Design Principles
Tempest Design Principles that we strive to live by.
- Tempest should be able to run against any OpenStack cloud, be it a one node DevStack install, a 20 node LXC cloud, or a 1000 node KVM cloud.
- Tempest should be explicit in testing features. It is easy to auto discover features of a cloud incorrectly, and give people an incorrect assessment of their cloud. Explicit is always better.
- Tempest uses OpenStack public interfaces. Tests in Tempest should only touch public OpenStack APIs.
- Tempest should not touch private or implementation specific interfaces. This means not directly going to the database, not directly hitting the hypervisors, not testing extensions not included in the OpenStack base. If there are some features of OpenStack that are not verifiable through standard interfaces, this should be considered a possible enhancement.
- Tempest strives for complete coverage of the OpenStack API and common scenarios that demonstrate a working cloud.
- Tempest drives load in an OpenStack cloud. By including a broad array of API and scenario tests Tempest can be reused in whole or in parts as load generation for an OpenStack cloud.
- Tempest should attempt to clean up after itself, whenever possible we should tear down resources when done.
- Tempest should be self-testing.
Quickstart
To run Tempest, you first need to create a configuration file that will tell Tempest where to find the various OpenStack services and other testing behavior switches. Where the configuration file lives and how you interact with it depends on how you'll be running Tempest. There are 2 methods of using Tempest. The first, which is a newer and recommended workflow treats Tempest as a system installed program. The second older method is to run Tempest assuming your working dir is the actually Tempest source repo, and there are a number of assumptions related to that. For this section we'll only cover the newer method as it is simpler, and quicker to work with.
You first need to install Tempest. This is done with pip after you check out the Tempest repo:
$ git clone http://git.openstack.org/openstack/tempest $ pip install tempest/
This can be done within a venv, but the assumption for this guide is that the Tempest CLI entry point will be in your shell's PATH.
Installing Tempest may create a
/etc/tempest dir
, however if one isn't created you can create one or use~/.tempest/etc
or~/.config/tempest
in place of/etc/tempest
. If none of these dirs are created Tempest will create~/.tempest/etc
when it's needed. The contents of this dir will always automatically be copied to alletc/
dirs in local workspaces as an initial setup step. So if there is any common configuration you'd like to be shared between local Tempest workspaces it's recommended that you pre-populate it before runningtempest init
.Setup a local Tempest workspace. This is done by using the tempest init command:
$ tempest init cloud-01
which also works the same as:
$ mkdir cloud-01 && cd cloud-01 && tempest init
This will create a new directory for running a single Tempest configuration. If you'd like to run Tempest against multiple OpenStack deployments the idea is that you'll create a new working directory for each to maintain separate configuration files and local artifact storage for each.
Then
cd
into the newly created working dir and also modify the local config files located in theetc/
subdir created by thetempest init
command. Tempest is expecting atempest.conf
file in etc/ so if only a sample exists you must rename or copy it to tempest.conf before making any changes to it otherwise Tempest will not know how to load it. For details on configuring Tempest refer to thetempest-configuration
.Once the configuration is done you're now ready to run Tempest. This can be done using the
tempest_run
command. This can be done by either running:$ tempest run
from the Tempest workspace directory. Or you can use the
--workspace
argument to run in the workspace you created regardless of your current working directory. For example:$ tempest run --workspace cloud-01
There is also the option to use testr directly, or any testr based test runner, like ostestr. For example, from the workspace dir run:
$ ostestr --regex '(?!.*\[.*\bslow\b.*\])(^tempest\.(api|scenario))'
will run the same set of tests as the default gate jobs.
Library
Tempest exposes a library interface. This interface is a stable interface and should be backwards compatible (including backwards compatibility with the old tempest-lib package, with the exception of the import). If you plan to directly consume Tempest in your project you should only import code from the Tempest library interface, other pieces of Tempest do not have the same stable interface and there are no guarantees on the Python API unless otherwise stated.
For more details refer to the library documentation here: library
Release Versioning
Tempest Release Notes shows what changes have been released on each version.
Tempest's released versions are broken into 2 sets of information. Depending on how you intend to consume Tempest you might need
The version is a set of 3 numbers:
X.Y.Z
While this is almost semver like, the way versioning is handled is slightly different:
X is used to represent the supported OpenStack releases for Tempest tests in-tree, and to signify major feature changes to Tempest. It's a monotonically increasing integer where each version either indicates a new supported OpenStack release, the drop of support for an OpenStack release (which will coincide with the upstream stable branch going EOL), or a major feature lands (or is removed) from Tempest.
Y.Z is used to represent library interface changes. This is treated the same way as minor and patch versions from semver but only for the library interface. When Y is incremented we've added functionality to the library interface and when Z is incremented it's a bug fix release for the library. Also note that both Y and Z are reset to 0 at each increment of X.
Configuration
Detailed configuration of Tempest is beyond the scope of this
document see tempest-configuration
for more details on configuring
Tempest. The etc/tempest.conf.sample
attempts to be a
self-documenting version of the configuration.
You can generate a new sample tempest.conf file, run the following command from the top level of the Tempest directory:
$ tox -e genconfig
The most important pieces that are needed are the user ids, OpenStack endpoints, and basic flavors and images needed to run tests.
Unit Tests
Tempest also has a set of unit tests which test the Tempest code itself. These tests can be run by specifying the test discovery path:
$ stestr --test-path ./tempest/tests run
By setting --test-path
option to ./tempest/tests it
specifies that test discover should only be run on the unit test
directory. The default value of test_path
is
test_path=./tempest/test_discover
which will only run test
discover on the Tempest suite.
Alternatively, there are the py27 and py35 tox jobs which will run the unit tests with the corresponding version of python.
Python 2.6
Starting in the Kilo release the OpenStack services dropped all support for python 2.6. This change has been mirrored in Tempest, starting after the tempest-2 tag. This means that proposed changes to Tempest which only fix python 2.6 compatibility will be rejected, and moving forward more features not present in python 2.6 will be used. If you're running your OpenStack services on an earlier release with python 2.6 you can easily run Tempest against it from a remote system running python 2.7. (or deploy a cloud guest in your cloud that has python 2.7)
Python 3.x
Starting during the Pike cycle Tempest has a gating CI job that runs Tempest with Python 3. Any Tempest release after 15.0.0 should fully support running under Python 3 as well as Python 2.7.
Legacy run method
The legacy method of running Tempest is to just treat the Tempest source code as a python unittest repository and run directly from the source repo. When running in this way you still start with a Tempest config file and the steps are basically the same except that it expects you know where the Tempest code lives on your system and requires a bit more manual interaction to get Tempest running. For example, when running Tempest this way things like a lock file directory do not get generated automatically and the burden is on the user to create and configure that.
To start you need to create a configuration file. The easiest way to
create a configuration file is to generate a sample in the
etc/
directory :
$ cd $TEMPEST_ROOT_DIR
$ oslo-config-generator --config-file \
tempest/cmd/config-generator.tempest.conf \
--output-file etc/tempest.conf
After that, open up the etc/tempest.conf
file and edit
the configuration variables to match valid data in your environment.
This includes your Keystone endpoint, a valid user and credentials, and
reference data to be used in testing.
Note
If you have a running DevStack environment, Tempest will be
automatically configured and placed in /opt/stack/tempest
.
It will have a configuration file already set up to work with your
DevStack installation.
Tempest is not tied to any single test runner, but testr is the most commonly used tool. Also, the nosetests test runner is not recommended to run Tempest.
After setting up your configuration file, you can execute the set of
Tempest tests by using testr
:
$ testr run --parallel
To run one single test serially :
$ testr run tempest.api.compute.servers.test_servers_negative.ServersNegativeTestJSON.test_reboot_non_existent_server
Tox also contains several existing job configurations. For example:
$ tox -e full
which will run the same set of tests as the OpenStack gate. (it's exactly how the gate invokes Tempest) Or:
$ tox -e smoke
to run the tests tagged as smoke.