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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Bryant [mailto:rbryant at redhat.com]
> Sent: 26 November 2013 13:56
> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Cc: Sean Dague
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Hypervisor CI requirement and
> deprecation plan
> 
> On 11/26/2013 04:48 AM, Bob Ball wrote:
> >
> > I hope we can safely say that we should run against all "gating" tests which
> require Nova?  Currently we run quite a number of tests in the gate that
> succeed even when Nova is not running as the gate isn't just for Nova but
> for all projects.
> 
> Would you like to come up with a more detailed proposal?  What tests
> would you cut, and how much time does it save?

I don't have a detailed proposal yet - but it's very possible that we'll want one in the coming weeks. 

In terms of the time saved, I noticed that a tempest smoke run with Nova absent took 400 seconds on one of my machines (a particularly slow one) - so I imagine that would translate to maybe a 300 second / 5 minute reduction in overall time.  Total smoke took approximately 800 seconds on the same machine.

If the approach could be acceptable then yes, I'm happy to come up with a detailed set of tests that I would propose cutting.

My primary hesitation with the approach is it would need Tempest reviewers to be aware of this extra type of test, and flag up if a test is added to the full tempest suite which should also be in the nova tempest suite.

Bob