Hi, Thanjs for clearing that up... I had a hard time understanding the screws before I went with testr.
Regards, Vineet On 25 Nov 2014 17:46, "Matthew Treinish" <mtrein...@kortar.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:49:27AM +0100, Angelo Matarazzo wrote: > > Sorry for my previous message with wrong subject > > > > Hi all, > > By reading the tempest documentation page [1] a user can run tempest > tests > > by using whether testr or run_tempest.sh or tox. > > > > What is the best practice? > > run_tempest.sh has several options (e.g. ./run_tempest.sh -h) and it is > my > > preferred way, currently. > > Any thought? > > So the options are there for different reasons and fit different purposes. > The > run_tempest.sh script exists mostly for legacy reasons as some people > prefer to > use it, and it predates the usage of tox in tempest. It also has some > advantages > like that it can run without a venv and provides some other options. > > Tox is what we use for gating, and we keep most of job definitions for > gating in > the tox.ini file. If you're trying to reproduce a gate run locally using > tox is > what is recommended to use. Personally I use it to run everything just > because > I often mix unit tests and tempest runs and I like having separate venvs > for > both being created on demand. > > Calling testr directly is just what all of these tools are doing under the > covers, and it'll always be an option. > > One thing we're looking to do this cycle is to add a single entry point for > running tempest which will hopefully clear up this confusion, and make the > interface for interacting with tempest a bit nicer. When this work is > done, the > run_tempest.sh script will most likely disappear and tox will probably > just be > used for gating job definitions and just call the new entry-point instead > of > testr directly. > > > > > BR, > > Angelo > > > > [1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/overview.html#quickstart > > > > -Matt Treinish > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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