The current trunk in lp:secretstorage (I'm going to release 1.1 in the next couple of weeks) contains a secretservice_mock.py file which allows you to export USE_SS_MOCK=1 and then the tests will pass even if there is no SecretService daemon running.
However, when you want to test it against a real-life implementation (i.e. GNOME Keyring), you should make sure it is running and the keyring is unlocked.
Thanks for packaging it for Fedora!
The current trunk in lp:secretstorage (I'm going to release 1.1 in the next couple of weeks) contains a secretservice_ mock.py file which allows you to export USE_SS_MOCK=1 and then the tests will pass even if there is no SecretService daemon running.
However, when you want to test it against a real-life implementation (i.e. GNOME Keyring), you should make sure it is running and the keyring is unlocked.