2.7. OpenStack Integration Test Suite
The Integration Test Suite (tempest) is now included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. The suite offers a set of integration tests that can be run against your OpenStack environment, ensuring that your cloud works as expected. Integration testing combines and tests the individual OpenStack modules as a group, enabling you to test complete cloud functionality.
The Integration Test Suite offers the following features:
- Complete testing
- The suite includes API, scenario, and stress tests. The suite also includes a set of unit tests that can test the suite's code itself. You can run the entire test suite, all tests in one directory, a test module, or just a single test.
- Configuration
- You can manually configure the suite or use a script that pulls information from the testing environment (by querying the cloud), and which can create necessary resources or credentials.
- Scalable
- The suite can be run against any OpenStack cloud, regardless of the cloud's node size. It can spin up instances or volumes on each compute or storage node in the cloud, conduct tests, and then terminate them again.
- Public Interfaces
- The suite only runs against public interfaces (your OpenStack endpoints). No private or implementation-specific interfaces are used. Tests are not run directly against the database or hypervisors.
- Choice of Authentication
- Tests can be run as a regular user, a global admin user, or using some other user set of credentials.