[openstack-dev] [qa] Tracking development of scenario tests

Masayuki Igawa igawa at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp
Thu Nov 14 03:47:40 UTC 2013


Hi,

2013/11/14 11:32:41 David Kranz <dkranz at redhat.com> wrote:
「Re: [openstack-dev] [qa] Tracking development of scenario tests」
> On 11/13/2013 07:35 PM, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
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> 	On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:54 AM, David Kranz <dkranz at redhat.com> wrote:
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> 		It was clear at the summit that there is a pressing need for more scenario tests. A number of folks have volunteered to participate so we need a way to track progress and avoid duplication. We have not had great satisfaction using either bugs or blueprints, so Sean and I are proposing a more "self-service" approach and process:
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> 		1. Developer checks in the zeroth version of a scenario test as work in progress. It contains a description of the test, and     possibly work items.  This will "claim" the area of the proposed scenario to avoid duplication and allow others to comment through gerrit.
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> 	I don't know how well it maps for scenario testing, but I think the spreadsheet approach for the API tests has worked pretty well. Makes the breakdown of large chunks of work more manageable
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> 	Chris
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> Yeah, I thought about that. It works well when the spec is a collection of independent one-liners like it is for apis but scenarios are more involved. I also like the idea of putting the spec together with the code and the commenting utility of gerrit. We thought it was worth a try.

I think etherpads is useful for the first step.
Of course, more systematic/automatic approach as David said is better. I have no idea for now, though..

Best Regards,
-- Masayuki Igawa

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