Tempest Testing Project

Overview

• Tempest - The OpenStack Integration Test Suite
  • Team and repository tags
  • Design Principles
  • Quickstart
  • Library
  • Release Versioning
  • Configuration
  • Unit Tests
  • Python 3.x
  • Legacy run method

Field Guides

Tempest contains tests of many different types, the field guides attempt to explain these in a way that makes it easy to understand where your test contributions should go.

• Tempest Field Guide Overview
• Tempest Field Guide to API tests
• Tempest Field Guide to Scenario tests
• Tempest Field Guide to Unit tests

Users Guide

Tempest Configuration Guide

• Tempest Configuration Guide
  • Test Credentials
  • Compute
  • Networking
  • Configuring Available Services
  • Service Feature Configuration
• Sample Configuration File

Command Documentation

• Tempest Test-Account Generator Utility
• Post Tempest Run Cleanup Utility
• Subunit Describe Calls Utility
• Tempest Workspace
• Tempest Run

Developers Guide

Development

• Tempest Coding Guide
  • Tempest Specific Commandments
  • Test Data/Configuration
  • Supported OpenStack Components
  • Exception Handling
  • Test cases are independent
  • Service Tagging
  • Test Attributes
  • Test fixtures and resources
  • Skipping Tests
  • Negative Tests
  • Test skips because of Known Bugs
  • Guidelines
  • Parallel Test Execution
  • Sample Configuration File
  • Unit Tests
  • Test Documentation
  • Test Identification with Idempotent ID
  • Branchless Tempest Considerations
  • API Stability
• Reviewing Tempest Code
  • Ensuring code is executed
  • Execution time
  • Unit Tests
  • API Stability
  • Reject Copy and Paste Test Code
  • Tests overlap
  • Being explicit
  • Configuration Options
  • Test Documentation
  • Test Removal and Refactoring
  • Release Notes
  • Deprecated Code
  • When to approve
• Microversion Testing With Tempest
  • Tempest Scope For Microversion Testing
  • Project Scope For Microversion Testing
  • Configuration options for Microversion
  • How To Implement Microversion Tests
  • Notes about Compute Microversion Tests
  • Microversion tests implemented in Tempest
• Tempest Test Removal Procedure
  • Proposing a test removal
  • Exceptions to this procedure
• Tempest Test Writing Guide
  • Adding a New TestCase
  • Interacting with Credentials and Clients

Plugins

• Tempest Test Plugin Interface
  • Creating a plugin
  • Plugin Class
  • Plugin Structure
  • Using Plugins
• Tempest Plugin Registry
  • Detected Plugins
  • Blacklisted Plugins

Library

• Tempest Library Documentation
  • Stability
  • Current Library APIs

Support Policy

• Stable Branch Support Policy

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