[openstack-dev] nova test suite issue

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Oct 30 22:29:14 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> As part of the work towards parallel testing, we landed a patch that
> starts to use testtools. Unfortunately, this has uncovered a place where
> nose violates the python unittest api/protocol (yay!) which means that
> tracebacks on test failures are a bit broken at the moment.
>
> Just wanted to give folks a heads up that there are people working on
> fixing it - and sorry about that.

Actually, in this case its testtools not giving nose information it
(reasonably) expects - its the error-detail plugin, which we have
turned on. A trivial patch, which Clark has put up for nova, will
disable that plugin and resolves the issue.

-Rob



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