[openstack-dev] unit tests

Joshua Harlow harlowja at yahoo-inc.com
Tue Feb 12 18:08:22 UTC 2013


Priorities in getting stuff working versus fixing the unit test tech debt that exists (and continuously fixing them until reviewers stop letting said types of tests in). Gotta pick my battles...

Sent from my really tiny device...

On Feb 11, 2013, at 5:19 AM, "Sean Dague" <sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 02/10/2013 01:48 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
>> 100% agree, there is a mix-mash of unit tests and things called unit tests (more likely integration tests) in the code bases. In anvil I often actually have to remove certain tests from running since said test depends on some other component "strongly" (swift tests in nova if I remember correctly).
>> 
>> Sort of sad that it requires a whole complex system of setup this before that, just to run unit tests...
>> 
>> Sent from my really tiny device...
> 
> If you are doing this every time, why not devote the time to a refactor 
> that cleans it up in the upstream tree? These kind of contributions are 
> highly appreciated.
> 
>    -Sean
> 
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> Sean Dague
> IBM Linux Technology Center
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