Well one problem is that the current tests were broken from what I could tell. Which is why the idea was to replace them with up-to-date tests which follow what users would do (which is why @everett-toews also added the deprecation PR).
I don't think this tests a cinder feature; it just tests a nova feature that requires cinder to be tested properly. We could add new working tests that test the old deprecated API - I think that would make sense. This might be a bit more difficult to setup for live testing. Hopefully I am making sense :) --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/709#issuecomment-83887680
