On 10/25/2013 08:39 AM, David Kranz wrote:
A patch was submitted with some new tests of this api
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/49778/. I gave a -1 because if a
negative test to shutdown a host fails, a compute node will be shutdown.
The author thinks this test should be part of tempest. My issue was that
we should not have tempest tests for apis that:

1. May corrupt the underlying system (that is part of the reason we
moved whitebox out)

I really felt the reason we moved out whitebox is that OpenStack internals move way to fast to have them being validated by an external system. We have defined surfaces (i.e. API) and that should be the focus.

2. Can have only negative tests because positive ones could prevent
other tests from executing

Honestly, trying to shut down the host with invalid credentials seems like a fair test. Because if we fail, we're going to know really quick when everything blackholes.

In the gate this is slightly funnier because tempest is running on the same place as the host, however it seems like a sane check to have in there.

        -Sean

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Sean Dague
http://dague.net

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