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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Vijay B <os.vbvs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can we skip certain unit tests when running run_tests.sh? I'm looking at
> the Openstack unit test page at
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/devref/unit_tests.html but I cannot
> find info on how to do this. Any idea if there already is a way to do this?
> If not, does the community think it would be helpful to have such a
> facility? I think it would help to have this if certain tests are broken. Of
> course, tests should never be broken and should be fixed right away, but at
> certain times it may not be possible to wait for the tests to be fixed,
> especially if there is an external dependency, and we may want to be able to
> customize automated builds temporarily until the broken tests are fixed.
>
> Regards,
> Vijay
>
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Hi Vijay,

Theoretically there should never be broken tests in master, that's
what the gates are for and if there are they should be fixed very
quickly.

Back to your question, I don't know of a way to skip from
run_tests.sh, but there is a skip decorator that can be added to tests
in the code.  You can also specify specific tests to run.  Using
run_tests.sh (you can also do more sophisticated things with testr or
tox directly) you could do something like:
'run_tests.sh cinder.tests.test_volumes' or more granular:
'run_tests.sh cinder.tests.test_volume:VolumeTestCase.test_create_delete_volume

Hope that helps.

John