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Maybe I'm getting a little off topic with this question, but why was
Tempest removed last time?

I'm not well versed in the history of this discussion, but from what I
understand Tempest in the gate has
been an off and on again thing for a while but I've never heard the
story of why it got removed.

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Chris Dent <cdent+os at anticdent.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2017, Sagi Shnaidman wrote:
>
>> It may be useful to run a "limited edition" of API tests that maximize
>> coverage and don't duplicate, for example just to check service working
>> basically, without covering all its functionality. It will take very
>> little
>> time (i.e. 5 tests for each service) and will give a general picture of
>> deployment success. It will cover fields that are not covered by pingtest
>> as well.
>
>
> It's sound like using some parts of tempest is perhaps the desired
> thing here but in case a "limited edition" test against the APIs to
> do what amounts to a smoke test is desired, it might be worthwhile
> to investigate using gabbi[1] and its command line gabbi-run[2] tool for
> some fairly simple and readable tests that can describe a sequence
> of API interactions. There are lots of tools that can do the same
> thing, so gabbi may not be the right choice but it's there as an
> option.
>
> The telemetry group had (an may still have) some integration tests
> that use gabbi files to integrate ceilometer, heat (starting some
> vms), aodh and gnocchi and confirm that the expected flow happened.
> Since the earlier raw scripts I think there's been some integration
> with tempest, but gabbi files are still used[3].
>
> If this might be useful and I can help out, please ask.
>
> [1] http://gabbi.readthedocs.io/
> [2] http://gabbi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/runner.html
> [3]
> https://github.com/openstack/ceilometer/tree/master/ceilometer/tests/integration
>
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