more fine grained categorisation for tests
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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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Contributor guide
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