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-----Original Message-----
From: David Stanek <dstanek at dstanek.com>
Reply: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date: January 7, 2016 at 18:14:23
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Subject:  Re: [openstack-dev] [all] re-introducing twisted to	global-requirements

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Jim Rollenhagen  
> wrote:
>  
> > We'd be using this for functional tests, not unit, where we can't really
> > inject mocks. The idea is that we could run a full functional suite
> > against either mimic or a full ironic environment, just by changing a
> > test setting.
> >
>  
> I'm assuming that this would be for client functional tests because it
> wouldn't make sense for testing a server. How is the interface created? It
> seems like it would be possible for the mocked API to not match the actual
> API.

I agree. It's very easy for servers intending to mimic APIs and their behaviour to fall out of synchronization with the server they're attempting to mimic.

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Ian Cordasco