The tests are failing: [15/Jun/2014:08:58:21] ENGINE Bus STARTING [15/Jun/2014:08:58:21] ENGINE Started monitor thread 'Autoreloader'. [15/Jun/2014:08:58:21] ENGINE Started monitor thread '_TimeoutMonitor'. [15/Jun/2014:08:58:21] ENGINE Serving on 127.0.0.1:51118 [15/Jun/2014:08:58:21] ENGINE Bus STARTED [15/Jun/2014:08:58:21] ENGINE Started monitor thread 'Session cleanup'. [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 102, in run hook() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 62, in __call__ return self.callback(**self.kwargs) File "/home/alinefm/kimchi/src/kimchi/auth.py", line 247, in kimchiauth if check_auth_httpba(): File "/home/alinefm/kimchi/src/kimchi/auth.py", line 194, in check_auth_httpba return login(username, password) File "/home/alinefm/kimchi/src/kimchi/auth.py", line 207, in login raise OperationFailed("KCHAUTH0001E", msg_args) OperationFailed: KCHAUTH0001E: KCHAUTH0001E [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] HTTP Request Headers: AUTHORIZATION: Basic YWRtaW46bGV0bWVpbiE= Content-Length: 43 HOST: 127.0.0.1 CONNECTION: close Remote-Addr: 127.0.0.1 X-REAL-IP: 127.0.0.1 ACCEPT: application/json X-FORWARDED-FOR: 127.0.0.1 Content-Type: application/json ACCEPT-ENCODING: identity [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] HTTP Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 653, in respond self.hooks.run('before_handler') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 112, in run raise exc OperationFailed: KCHAUTH0001E: KCHAUTH0001E 127.0.0.1 - - [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] "POST /plugins/sample/rectangles HTTP/1.0" 500 1105 "" "" F[15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE Bus STOPPING [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE HTTP Server cherrypy._cpwsgi_server.CPWSGIServer(('127.0.0.1', 51118)) shut down [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE Stopped thread '_TimeoutMonitor'. [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE Stopped thread 'Session cleanup'. [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE Stopped thread 'Autoreloader'. [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE Bus STOPPED [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE Bus EXITING [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE Waiting for child threads to terminate... [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE Waiting for thread MainThread. [15/Jun/2014:08:58:23] ENGINE Bus EXITED ====================================================================== FAIL: test_rectangles (test_plugin.PluginTests) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_plugin.py", line 91, in test_rectangles self._create_rectangle_and_assert('small', 10, 8) File "test_plugin.py", line 76, in _create_rectangle_and_assert self.assertEquals(201, resp.status) AssertionError: 201 != 500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 1 test in 2.550s FAILED (failures=1) It is because you protected the plugins URLs: [/description] tools.kimchiauth.on = True [/rectangles] tools.kimchiauth.on = True tools.kimchiauth.admin_methods = ['POST', 'PUT'] [/circles] tools.kimchiauth.on = True tools.kimchiauth.admin_methods = ['POST', 'PUT'] So to tests work well you need to run patch_auth() in setupModule() - the same way we did for test_rest.py