deb-python-tempest-lib/README.rst

tempest-lib

OpenStack Functional Testing Library

• Free software: Apache license
• Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest-lib
• Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tempest-lib
• Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/tempest

tempest-lib is a library of common functionality that was originally in tempest (or similar in scope to tempest)

Features

Some of the current functionality exposed from the library includes:

• OpenStack python-* client CLI testing framework

• subunit-trace: A output filter for subunit streams. Useful in conjunction

  with calling a test runner that emits subunit

• A unified REST Client
• Utility functions:
  • skip_because: Skip a test because of a bug

  • find_test_caller: Perform stack introspection to find the test caller.

    common methods