Marvin is a great tool for simplifying test case writing. The integration library within it over time has become slighlty unweildy to use while adapting to the changing API nature.
In order to make test case writing quicker and somewhat intuitive I propose to do a small refactor of the integration libraries. The pattern I'm looking for is as follows: Test case writers will execute a scenario using cloudmonkey verbs and actions. The marvin library should provide a similar intuitive interface via the integration library to compose a testcase, have it up and running and debugged quickly. I've put down some specific improvements in the tickets: 1) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-980 2) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-981 3) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-989 4) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-927 I will prepare a small spec for this and work on a feature branch so as not to affect the tests that are working. Also the tests will need to be fixed after the refactor so I will do that suite-by-suite also in the same feature branch. Since this is more from a test standpoint and not a release standpoint it shouldn't affect the release schedule. But I'd like to get it through in time so as to allow for some room to write tests using the refactored library. Thoughts? -- Prasanna.,
