Sorry for late reply and thanks for bring this out, I agree the create_db flag will increase the complexity so I might do some PoC and write a spec to do it next release
For this sentence, I don't fully understand, are you suggesting to every db usage remove should be a patch for a test class? thanks a lot I'd like to propose instead DB usage should be removed per test Class as an atomic unit. Best Regards! Kevin (Chen) Ji 纪 晨 Engineer, zVM Development, CSTL Notes: Chen CH Ji/China/IBM@IBMCN Internet: jiche...@cn.ibm.com Phone: +86-10-82454158 Address: 3/F Ring Building, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, PRC From: Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> Cc: Chen CH Ji/China/IBM@IBMCN Date: 01/24/2015 07:13 PM Subject: [nova] proposal for unwinding database usage from tests I've been looking at the following patch series - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/131691/13 for removing database requirements from some tests. I whole heartedly support getting DB usage out of tests, but I'd like to make sure that we don't create new challenges in the process. The conditional create_db parameter in test functions adds a bit more internal test complexity than I think we should have. I'd like to propose instead DB usage should be removed per test Class as an atomic unit. If that turns into too large a patch that probably means breaking apart the test class into smaller test classes first. The other thing to be careful in understanding the results of timing tests. The way the database fixture works it caches the migration process - https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/tests/fixtures.py#L206 That actually means that the overhead of the db-migration sync is paid only once per testr worker (it's 1s on my fast workstation, might be 2s on gate nodes). The subsequence db setups for tests 2 -> N in the worker only take about 0.020s on my workstation (scale appropriately). So removing all the unneeded db setup code is probably only going to save ~30s over an entire test run. Which doesn't mean it shouldn't be done, there are other safety reasons we shouldn't let every test randomly punch data into the db and still pass. But time savings should not be the primary motivator here, because it's actually not nearly as much gain as it looks like from running only a small number of tests. -Sean -- Sean Dague http://dague.net (See attached file: signature.asc)
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