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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m trying to understand which base class to use when developing new tests in tempest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>test.py and smoke.py provide base classes, with a functions for resource management resources.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>base.py in the compute module – which is used by most compute tests – does not care about the above, and defines its own class, BaseCompTest<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>class BaseCompTest(testtools.testcase.WithAttributes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> testtools.TestCase,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> testresources.ResourcedTestCase):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BaseCompTest defines its own “resource management” for servers using a list of objects which is cleared at teardown time. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It provides implementation for tenant isolation as well as helper methods for resource creation such as create_server<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There seem to be a disjunction between the effort put in the implementation of Test, DefaultTestClient and DefaultClientSmokeTest on one side, and BaseCompTest on the other side.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is there a definition of which base class we shall invest on for the development of new test cases, so to avoid disjoints efforts?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BaseCompTest could inherit from DefaultTestClient and use the resource management defined there rather than its own.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>andrea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Andrea Frittoli<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>IaaS Systems Engineering Team<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>HP Cloud Services<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>