[openstack-dev] [nova][oslo] what to do with problematic mocking in nova unit tests

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Fri Mar 30 11:35:17 UTC 2018


Anyone?

> On Mar 28, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> 
> In the course of preparing the next release of oslo.config, Ben noticed
> that nova's unit tests fail with oslo.config master [1].
> 
> The underlying issue is that the tests mock things that oslo.config
> is now calling as part of determining where options are being set
> in code. This isn't an API change in oslo.config, and it is all
> transparent for normal uses of the library. But the mocks replace
> os.path.exists() and open() for the entire duration of a test
> function (not just for the isolated application code being tested),
> and so the library behavior change surfaces as a test error.
> 
> I'm not really in a position to go through and clean up the use of
> mocks in those (and other?) tests myself, and I would like to not
> have to revert the feature work in oslo.config, especially since
> we did it for the placement API stuff for the nova team.
> 
> I'm looking for ideas about what to do.
> 
> Doug
> 
> [1] http://logs.openstack.org/12/557012/1/check/cross-nova-py27/37b2a7c/job-output.txt.gz#_2018-03-27_21_41_09_883881
> 
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