On 26/07/2016 14:18, Doug Hellmann wrote: > Excerpts from Luigi Toscano's message of 2016-07-26 15:02:28 +0200: >> On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 08:34:27 CEST Doug Hellmann wrote: >>> Excerpts from Andrea Frittoli's message of 2016-07-26 10:24:07 +0000: >>>> >>>> What still requires work in Tempest is the stable interface. Because >>>> plugins are not in the Tempest tree, the QA team recommend that they use >>>> only tempest stable interfaces. Increasing the surface of stable >>>> interfaces >>>> is what keeps a lot of the QA folks busy. >>>> >>>> There's a lot of code in tempest that was written under the assumption >>>> that >>>> all tests would always live in the tempest tree; evolving that code into a >>>> stable publicly consumable interface is simply a lot of work, which the QA >>>> team is prioritising based on the input from plugins. >>>> >>>> Tempest plugins are for all right now. Keystone, Cinder and Neutron >>>> already >>>> have a plugin today. We don't want tests which are not relevant for >>>> integration or defcore to be added to Tempest, and that is true for *all* >>>> services. >>> >>> Thank you for those details, and for confirming that the situation >>> is more or less what I expected (it's in progress, creating a stable >>> API takes work, etc.). Where would someone who wanted to contribute >>> look for details? Are there specs or an etherpad with a task list >>> or something like that? >> Andrea can share more details as he is driving the Client Manager refactors, >> but for example: >> >> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/qa-specs/specs/tempest/client-manager-refactor.html >> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-tempest-service-clients > > Good. > >> >>> >>> And just to satisfy my own curiosity, how does someone looking at the >>> internals of tempest know what's on the stable API and what's not >>> considered stable? Are the parts of the API documented separately >>> somehow or is there a different part of the code tree to look at? >> >> tempest.lib is the stable part (previously split in a separate tempest-lib >> repository, which is now deprecated as the code was put back into the main >> tempest repository): >> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/overview.html#library > > That seems quite clear, thanks.
it is actually a bit more - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/plugin.html >> >> Ciao > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
