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Testing Your OpenStack Code
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A Quickstart
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This is designed to be enough information for you to run your first tests.
Detailed information on testing can be found here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Testing

*Install pip*::

  $ [apt-get | yum] install python-pip
More information on pip here: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/

*Use pip to install tox*::

  $ pip install tox

Run The Tests
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*Navigate to the project's root directory and execute*::

  $ tox
Note: completing this command may take a long time (depends on system resources)
also, you might not see any output until tox is complete.

Information about tox can be found here: http://testrun.org/tox/latest/

Run The Tests in One Environment
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Tox will run your entire test suite in the environments specified in the project tox.ini::

  [tox]

  envlist = <list of available environments>

To run the test suite in just one of the environments in envlist execute::

  $ tox -e <env>
so for example, *run the test suite with the default OS version of Python 3*::

  $ tox -e py3

or select a specific version, *run the test suite using Python 3.6*::

  $ tox -e py36

Other useful tox options that can be specified when running the test suite are::

  -v to increase verbosity of the output, can be repeated  up to three times
  based on the desired verbosity level

  -r to recreate the virtual environment from scratch

Run One Test
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To run individual tests with tox:

if testr is in tox.ini, for example::

  [testenv]

  includes "python setup.py testr --slowest --testr-args='{posargs}'"

run individual tests with the following syntax::

  $ tox -e <env> -- path.to.module:Class.test
so for example, *run the cpu_limited test in Nova*::

  $ tox -e py36 -- nova.tests.test_claims:ClaimTestCase.test_cpu_unlimited

if nose is in tox.ini, for example::

  [testenv]

  includes "nosetests {posargs}"

run individual tests with the following syntax::

  $ tox -e <env> -- --tests path.to.module:Class.test
so for example, *run the list test in Glance*::

  $ tox -e py36 -- --tests glance.tests.unit.test_auth.py:TestImageRepoProxy.test_list

Need More Info?
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More information about testr: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Testr

More information about tox: https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

More information about nose: https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

More information about testing OpenStack code can be found here:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Testing