On 08/06/2014 05:48 PM, John Griffith wrote:
I have to agree with Duncan here. I also don't know if I fully
understand the limit in options. Stress test seems like it
could/should be different (again overlap isn't a horrible thing) and I
don't see it as siphoning off resources so not sure of the issue.
We've become quite wrapped up in projects, programs and the like
lately and it seems to hinder forward progress more than anything else.
I'm also not convinced that Tempest is where all things belong, in
fact I've been thinking more and more that a good bit of what Tempest
does today should fall more on the responsibility of the projects
themselves. For example functional testing of features etc, ideally
I'd love to have more of that fall on the projects and their
respective teams. That might even be something as simple to start as
saying "if you contribute a new feature, you have to also provide a
link to a contribution to the Tempest test-suite that checks it".
Sort of like we do for unit tests, cross-project tracking is
difficult of course, but it's a start. The other idea is maybe
functional test harnesses live in their respective projects.
Honestly I think who better to write tests for a project than the
folks building and contributing to the project. At some point IMO the
QA team isn't going to scale. I wonder if maybe we should be thinking
about proposals for delineating responsibility and goals in terms of
functional testing?
All good points. Your last paragraph was discussed by the QA team
leading up to and at the Atlanta summit. The conclusion was that the
api/functional tests focused on a single project should be part of that
project. As Sean said, we can envision there being half (or some other
much smaller number) as many such tests in tempest going forward.
Details are under discussion, but the way this is likely to play out is
that individual projects will start by creating their own functional
tests outside of tempest. Swift already does this and neutron seems to
be moving in that direction. There is a spec to break out parts of
tempest
(https://github.com/openstack/qa-specs/blob/master/specs/tempest-library.rst)
into a library that might be used by projects implementing functional
tests.
Once a project has "sufficient" functional testing, we can consider
removing its api tests from tempest. This is a bit tricky because
tempest needs to cover *all* cross-project interactions. In this
respect, there is no clear line in tempest between scenario tests which
have this goal explicitly, and api tests which may also involve
interactions that might not be covered in a scenario. So we will need a
principled way to make sure there is complete cross-project coverage in
tempest with a smaller number of api tests.
-David
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