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nice idea, Chris! +1 for me. and very thankful for dkranz to bring this to
maillist here.


2013/10/25 Christopher Yeoh <cbkyeoh at gmail.com>

>
>
> On 26/10/2013, at 12:01 AM, David Kranz <dkranz at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/25/2013 09:10 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> >> On 10/25/2013 08:39 AM, David Kranz wrote:
> >>> A patch was submitted with some new tests of this api
> >>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/49778/. I gave a -1 because if a
> >>> negative test to shutdown a host fails, a compute node will be
> shutdown.
> >>> The author thinks this test should be part of tempest. My issue was
> that
> >>> we should not have tempest tests for apis that:
> >>>
> >>> 1. May corrupt the underlying system (that is part of the reason we
> >>> moved whitebox out)
> >>
> >> I really felt the reason we moved out whitebox is that OpenStack
> internals move way to fast to have them being validated by an external
> system. We have defined surfaces (i.e. API) and that should be the focus.
> > It was also because we were side-effecting the database out-of-band.
> >>
> >>> 2. Can have only negative tests because positive ones could prevent
> >>> other tests from executing
> >>
> >> Honestly, trying to shut down the host with invalid credentials seems
> like a fair test. Because if we fail, we're going to know really quick when
> everything blackholes.
> >>
> >> In the gate this is slightly funnier because tempest is running on the
> same place as the host, however it seems like a sane check to have in there.
> >>
> >>    -Sean
> > OK, I don't feel strongly about it. Just seemed like a potential
> landmine.
> >
>
> I think this is something we want to test in the gate. But perhaps there
> could be a tag for these sorts of test cases that some people may not want
> to risk running on their system so they can exclude them easily?
>
> Chris
>
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