oVirt functional test suites

[Mark Wu]

Hi all,

I am a vdsm developer. Recently I find there're many ongoing 
refactorings and improvements in vdsm code. From the bugs reported, we 
can see that unit tests just focus on a unit of code, and can't catch  
integration errors or broad system level errors.   So we need a thorough 
functional test suites for vdsm. But the build environment is very 
limited to run functional tests. It has a lot of dependencies  on the 
external setup, like storage server.

I would like to know  how the engine side perform functional tests. Is 
there any existing functional test suites based engine rest api? If yes, 
I think it's great to use it for vdsm's functional tests. We could build 
up a standard test env on physical machiness or vms for the test suites 
by some kickstart files. It also can be integrate into Jenkins.


Any feedback will be appreciated!

Mark.