Re: [Openstack-qa-team] Use of tearDown in tempest

2012-06-01 Thread Daryl Walleck
Hi David, The per test fixtures are there for two reasons. One - stability. If we were to share one server among the tests, any of the previous tests tainted it or left it in a bad state, the rest of the suite would fail for unclear reasons. The second is for parallel execution. We cannot perfo

[Openstack-qa-team] Use of tearDown in tempest

2012-06-01 Thread David Kranz
I am a little confused about this. Most test classes define tearDownClass that frees resources allocated in setUpClass. But two of the classes deviate from this. ServerActionsTest uses setUp and tearDown and creates a new server in setUp. I think this means that a new server is created before

Re: [Openstack-qa-team] Weekly Meeting tomorrow, Thursday, May 31 @ 17:00 UTC

2012-06-01 Thread David Kranz
Summary: * Jay could not attend so there was no discussion of tempest gating or Skip Captain or working with developers on functional test plans * Jose will submit a hopefully final patch for the swift tests very soon * We will standardize expected exception behavior to use assertRaises rath