apache / apache/cloudstack

more fine grained categorisation for tests

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component:integration-test long-term-plan Severity:Major status:on-hold
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Description

as a tester, one would want a more fine grained categorisation than "smoke", "component", "integration" to be able to quickly test a PR against features it touches on.

##### ISSUE TYPE

* Improvement Request
* Enhancement Request
* Feature Idea
* Other : testing aid

##### COMPONENT NAME

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Marvin
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##### CLOUDSTACK VERSION

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##### CONFIGURATION

##### OS / ENVIRONMENT

##### SUMMARY

when a PR is tested it is usually tested against a set of smoke tests in travis or a private cloud with s.moke tests and than maybe avery feature specific (often manual) test. A better categorisation would help in testing more related code and would allow for bypassing any tests that have no baring on the subject of the change.
A blueorangutan smoke test run takes anywhere between 8 and 15 hours and fails only once after the run, albeit with multiple reports. It would be helpful to run a smaller set of basic tests. if this set passes than a more high level batch could be choosen for a next step.

##### STEPS TO REPRODUCE

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go-test smoke
go-test accounts-and-roles
go-test instance-groups
go-test ...
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`go-test` could be any test infra structure like blueorangutan. It is used to illustrate the categorisation, not the test-infrastructure.

##### EXPECTED RESULTS

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##### ACTUAL RESULTS

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Research direction

The issue mentions Travis, private-cloud smoke tests, and blueorangutan; start by reviewing how the existing smoke, component, and integration categories are defined and selected. Done means proposing finer-grained categories that support targeted PR testing, avoid unrelated tests, and allow staged runs from a small basic set to broader feature-specific coverage.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
testing-qa
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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