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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> On 12/04/2013 06:59 PM, Brant Knudson wrote:
> >
> > In Keystone, we've got some tests that "raise self.skipTest('...')" in
> > the test class setUp() method (not setUpClass). My testing shows that if
> > there's several tests in the class then it shows all of those tests as
> > skipped (not just 1 skip). Does this do what you want?
> >
> > Here's an example:
> >
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/keystone/tree/keystone/tests/test_ipv6.py?id=73dbc00e6ac049f19d0069ecb07ca8ed75627dd5#n30
> >
> >
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/keystone/tree/keystone/tests/core.py?id=73dbc00e6ac049f19d0069ecb07ca8ed75627dd5#n500
>
> Our skipIf on the method does the same thing, because we rarely have a
> setUp. Realistically, Tempest tests are often a bit strange relative to
> testing you will see in project trees. Because Tempest is running tests
> on real resources, computes, cinder volumes, networks which can be very
> expensive to setup. This means that the bulk of the time in tempest
> tests is on setup.
>
> As a bunch of these tests aren't destructive to those resources, we
> cheat a little, and build them once in setUpClass. A naive convert to
> setUp would probably increase the Tempest run times by a factor of 6 to
> 10. We have ideas about how to do a non naive convert... but it will be
> late cycle at best.
>
> All of this is a bit of a digression, but it seemed like useful context.
>
>         -Sean
>
> --
> Sean Dague
> http://dague.net
>
>
Sean -

Thanks for the explanation. I wanted to make sure that we were doing the
right thing in Keystone, too.

- Brant
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