[openstack-dev] [tripleo] pingtest vs tempest

Arx Cruz arxcruz at redhat.com
Thu Apr 6 11:46:01 UTC 2017


Having tempest running will allow these jobs to appear in openstack-health
system as well.

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Justin Kilpatrick <jkilpatr at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Maybe I'm getting a little off topic with this question, but why was
> Tempest removed last time?
>
> I'm not well versed in the history of this discussion, but from what I
> understand Tempest in the gate has
> been an off and on again thing for a while but I've never heard the
> story of why it got removed.
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Chris Dent <cdent+os at anticdent.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Apr 2017, Sagi Shnaidman wrote:
> >
> >> It may be useful to run a "limited edition" of API tests that maximize
> >> coverage and don't duplicate, for example just to check service working
> >> basically, without covering all its functionality. It will take very
> >> little
> >> time (i.e. 5 tests for each service) and will give a general picture of
> >> deployment success. It will cover fields that are not covered by
> pingtest
> >> as well.
> >
> >
> > It's sound like using some parts of tempest is perhaps the desired
> > thing here but in case a "limited edition" test against the APIs to
> > do what amounts to a smoke test is desired, it might be worthwhile
> > to investigate using gabbi[1] and its command line gabbi-run[2] tool for
> > some fairly simple and readable tests that can describe a sequence
> > of API interactions. There are lots of tools that can do the same
> > thing, so gabbi may not be the right choice but it's there as an
> > option.
> >
> > The telemetry group had (an may still have) some integration tests
> > that use gabbi files to integrate ceilometer, heat (starting some
> > vms), aodh and gnocchi and confirm that the expected flow happened.
> > Since the earlier raw scripts I think there's been some integration
> > with tempest, but gabbi files are still used[3].
> >
> > If this might be useful and I can help out, please ask.
> >
> > [1] http://gabbi.readthedocs.io/
> > [2] http://gabbi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/runner.html
> > [3]
> > https://github.com/openstack/ceilometer/tree/master/
> ceilometer/tests/integration
> >
> > --
> > Chris Dent                 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯           https://anticdent.org/
> > freenode: cdent                                         tw: @anticdent
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