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[Matt Dietz <matt.dietz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually to extend this, Novaclient is used for zone communication inside
of nova. It not being included is silly, at this point

On 9/12/11 1:37 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Matt Dietz <matt.dietz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> Regarding novaclient, I was debating this myself last night. Our
>>backfire
>> suite currently uses it. However, I can see scenarios where nova has
>> advanced but novaclient has yet to, and because all three projects are
>> independently developed, we're stuck temporarily.
>
>This, I believe, is a problem. novaclient is currently the only client
>that isn't in the core project itself. Can we discuss pulling
>novaclient into Nova's source tree at the design summit?
>
>> I can see utility in
>> tests specifically for Novaclient, and ones that use a built in client
>>(as
>> the suite that Soren provided currently does.)
>
>Sure. This is actually something that Glance's functional test suite
>does. It uses httplib2 as a direct HTTP client and uses bin/glance to
>test the supplied Glance client.
>
>> Also, Backfire uses a module Kevin Mitchell wrote named Dtest that
>> actually provides a lot of that same functionality you mention, Tim. It
>> also gives you the ability to spawn the tests individually in
>>greenthreads
>> so they execute in parallel. We got push back when we initially tried to
>> merge our tests into Nova, partially because it uses a 3rd party library
>> for executing the tests. We can try merging these things together, if
>> that's what everyone wants.
>
>I'd be totally cool with bringing DTest goodness into
>https://github.com/sorenh/openstack-integration-tests. :)
>
>Less duplication of effort, the better IMHO.
>openstack-integration-tests should be in the business of writing
>integration tests, not multi-processing testing libraries.
>
>-jay

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