Data driven tests [1] help in generating more tests with less code. Useful for cases where we have lot of similar tests to be carried out with different configurations (run same tests with different network offerings for example)
I've tried this out for VPC tests. We have same set of tests need to be run both for VPC created with "Default offering" and "Default Offering with Netscaler as LB". Instead of rewriting the tests for each offering, we could just use ddt (pip install ddt) to achieve it. I've pushed a VPC test suite here with the changes: https://github.com/ksowmya/cloudstack-1/commit/67e8b3e43a8720d7887639498d609aebce8e2935 As part of this, I've also removed the creation of VPC offering as discussed in the other thread. Rest of the changes are related to ddt. Please take a look and let me know if any comments/suggestions. I can extend this further for other VPC tests and for other test suites as well. Presently I can think of Persistent network tests as another scenario where this might be useful. [1] http://ddt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example.html (Thanks Prasanna for the link!)
