Comment 3 for bug 1372950

stevedore looks for the entry points which are exposed via the entry_points.txt in the egg dir for trove... That said if you install trove into your venv before trying to run the tests it should work...

so in your steps above add a step between 2-3:

2.5) source .venv/bin/activate && python setup.py install

When I did this and ran 'python setup.py testr --slowest' (in my venv) I didn't get the api test error, but I did get some other UTs ; those you refer to above.