[openstack-dev] testr now Nova's test runner

Jian Wen wenjian at canonical.com
Tue Dec 18 03:14:34 UTC 2012


On 2012年12月16日 02:54, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> Nice work!!
>
> -- dims
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Clark Boylan <clark.boylan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The change (https://review.openstack.org/15078) to make testr Nova's
>> test runner merged in the last hour or so. What does this mean?
>>
>> * Nova's unittests will now be run in X parallel processes where X is
>>  the number of CPUs available on your machine (which results in much
>>  faster testing).
>> * Parallel testing means you cannot count on your tests being run in
>>  the same order each time they are run or in the same process. Tests
>>  should be independent units.
>>  * Make sure you subclass nova.test.TestCase for your test classes to
>>    pull in the proper base setUp and tearDown stuff.
>>  * Use fixtures.Fixture to build robust fixtures that properly set
>>    and reset state before and after each test.
>> * Virtual envs will need to be rebuilt as dependencies have changed.
>> * Each test run is logged in subunit under .testrepository/$TEST_RUN_NUMBER.
>>  * Every test run during the test run will be captured in this log.
>>  * For each test in this log you will find the captured stdout,
>>    stderr, and logging for when that test was run (this content is also
>>    echoed to stdout when a test fails).
>> * Running tests shouldn't change too much. tox -epy2X will still work
>>  and most of the run_tests.sh functionality was preserved.
>>  * For more info on running tests see http://wiki.openstack.org/testr.
>> * The logs provided by Jenkins will include the console log and an
>>  html page with test details (that does not change). You will also find
>>  the subunit log for that test run.
>>
>> This is a semi large change and there are differences between nose and
>> testr, non python2.6 test facilities like setUpClass will no longer be
>> available under python2.6 for example. But most of these changes
>> should be positive. Tests run faster, each test comes with very
>> verbose logs, tests end up being more robust as testr shouldn't have
>> the zero tests run but pass anyways problem. Additionally, because
>> tests are run in different orders and in parallel, testr will often
>> catch things like missing imports or conflicts between test cases (in
>> fact most of the work involved in making this happen was in fixing
>> test bugs).
>>
>> It would be great if other projects used
>> https://review.openstack.org/15078 as a template for switching over to
>> testr as well. Let me know if you have questions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Clark
>>
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Awesome

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