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Running Nova-PowerVM Tests
==========================

This page describes how to run the Nova-PowerVM tests. This page assumes you
have already set up an working Python environment for Nova-PowerVM development.

With `tox`
~~~~~~~~~~

Nova-PowerVM, like other OpenStack projects, uses `tox`_ for managing the virtual
environments for running test cases. It uses `Testr`_ for managing the running
of the test cases.

Tox handles the creation of a series of `virtualenvs`_ that target specific
versions of Python.

Testr handles the parallel execution of series of test cases as well as
the tracking of long-running tests and other things.

For more information on the standard tox-based test infrastructure used by
OpenStack and how to do some common test/debugging procedures with Testr,
see this wiki page:

  https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Testr

.. _Testr: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Testr
.. _tox: http://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
.. _virtualenvs: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

PEP8 and Unit Tests
+++++++++++++++++++

Running pep8 and unit tests is as easy as executing this in the root
directory of the Nova-PowerVM source code::

    tox

To run only pep8::

    tox -e pep8

To restrict the pylint check to only the files altered by the latest patch changes::

    tox -e pep8 HEAD~1

To run only the unit tests::

    tox -e py27,py34