On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jason Kölker <jkoel...@rackspace.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 11:07 -0800, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
>>  * create nova/volume/tests
>>  * move all scheduler-related tests (there are several) from
>> nova/tests into nova/volume/tests
>>  * break out tests on a per-module basis (e.g., nova/volume/driver.py
>> would get the test module nova/volume/tests/test_driver.py, etc.)
>>  * for modules that have already been broken out at a more
>> fine-grained level, keep (smaller test case modules are nice!)
>>  * only nova/*.py files will have a test case module in nova/tests
>>  * bonus: update the test runner to print the full dotted path so it's
>> immediately (and visually) clear where one has to go to address any
>> failures
>>
>> Given approval, this work would be done in its own blueprint. All this
>> work would be done in small chunks (probably one branch per module) so
>> that it will be easy to review and adjust the approach as needed.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I like this. It paves the way being able to break nova up into smaller
> inter-changeable packages. My only hesitation is stubs and fakes
> sharing.
>
> I don't want to bring up the unit vs func test debate again, but
> currently if a change happens on one side of the rpc layer, there is
> *hopefully* only one fake/stub set to change. If each module contains
> it's own set of tests, I worry that each module will start having their
> own set of fakes which will have to be updated. (I know this is already
> the case in many places, but hopefully we are all working on fixing
> that, right...? ;)

Yup! That's currently part of the work I'm doing in this blueprint:
  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/consolidate-testing-infrastructure

Note this line:
  [oubiwann] moving other fakes in various subpackages into
nova.testing.fake: TODO

:-)

d

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