goodbye and good riddance, run_tests.sh

[Aaron Rosen]

Quantum has been using tox for more than 6 months now, and it's about time to remove run_tests.sh, which apparently does not even work anymore.

This bug description has been updated to reflect consensus from the community.

[Maru Newby (maru)]

This is likely the result of having switched to testr but run_test.sh not having been updated. Note that the way the gate runs it is 'tox -e pep8', and this still works. Invoking flake8 directly also works, and will pick up the configuration from tox.ini

There was a session at the summit questioning whether run_tests.sh should persist given that tox can do the same thing and maintaining parity isn't free. Another concern was that run_tests.sh hides the underlying command being executed from developers, and it might be preferable to require people to invoke a given command directly so that they can have the opportunity to discover more advanced features (e.g. testr --failing).

So, should this bug be fixed, or might it be preferable to seek consensus on removal of run_tests.sh instead?

[Salvatore Orlando (salvatore-orlando)]

I seem to recall there's a sort of consensus of getting rid of ./run_tests.sh

Other project already said goodbye to it.
Perhaps if nobody comments here for 72 hours about keeping it we can just convert this bug report to "Remove run_tests.sh"

[Armando Migliaccio (armando-migliaccio)]

I agree with removing run_tests.sh. Having two ways to do the same thing may spark confusion.

[Mark McClain (markmcclain)]

My vote is to remove run_tests.sh.

[Akihiro Motoki (amotoki)]

I agree with removing run_tests.sh.

run_tests.sh was updated wrongly when testr was introduced.

[yong sheng gong (gongysh)]

me too

[Salvatore Orlando (salvatore-orlando)]

I think we have enough consensus now regarding its removal.
If anybody feels it shouldn't be removed, there's time until the patch is merged.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/27695

[Aaron Rosen (arosen)]

My only gripe is when i run: tox -e pep8 is that it creates a .tox/_download and installs all the dependencies even if I have them installed already on my system. Using ./run_test.sh -N --pep8 in grizzly would allow me to avoid this. Is there an arg to tox i'm missing?

[Salvatore Orlando (salvatore-orlando)]

I think everybody agrees with the slowness of tox, especially when setting
up the venv.

Since a few people voted for getting rid of it, I went ahead and deleted it.
The act of threatening to kill run_tests however woke up its supporters.

Therefore we should now think of fixing and maintaining it.
Il giorno 30/apr/2013 10:45, "Aaron Rosen" <email address hidden> ha scritto:

> My only gripe is when i run: tox -e pep8 is that it creates a
> .tox/_download and installs all the dependencies even if I have them
> installed already on my system. Using ./run_test.sh -N --pep8 in
> grizzly would allow me to avoid this. Is there an arg to tox i'm
> missing?
>
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> Bug description:
> Quantum has been using tox for more than 6 months now, and it's about
> time to remove run_tests.sh, which apparently does not even work
> anymore.
>
> This bug description has been updated to reflect consensus from the
> community.
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[Henry Gessau (gessau)]

I am not a supporter of run_tests per se, but I did use it for a couple of things, so when I saw it going away I had to look for new ways to do those things.

1) Instantly run one individual function or class unit test. For this tox is too clunky. Nosetests was mentioned but I have not figured how to use that yet.

2) Run a unit test in the debugger. For this I use(d) "python run_tests.py the.required.unit.test". Thus I would like to keep run_tests.py unless there is an alternative.

[Henry Gessau (gessau)]

We should also update .gitignore:

 build-stamp
 ChangeLog
 .coverage
-covhtml/
+cover/
 doc/build
 *.DS_Store
 *.pyc
 quantum.egg-info/
 quantum/vcsversion.py
 quantum/versioninfo
 run_tests.err.log
 run_tests.log
 setuptools*.egg/
 subunit.log
 .testrepository
 .tox/
-.venv/
 *.mo

[Cedric Brandily (cbrandily)]

This bug is > 365 days without activity. We are unsetting assignee and milestone and setting status to Incomplete in order to allow its expiry in 60 days.

If the bug is still valid, then update the bug status.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for neutron because there has been no activity for 60 days.]