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[Francis Ginther <francis.ginther@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Thomi Richards <thomi.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the replies. I'd like to summarise my understanding:
>
>
>    - Test authors *should* add test classes that describe the test
>    environment they require. However, adt-run ignores these, and there's no
>    infrastructure piece that reads and understands these classes, so this is
>    purely for future-proofing. I don't think we've defined these - I suggest
>    just using whatever makes sense, and we can clean these up later.
>
> I agree on just defining what is currently needed, and I think Martin's
suggestion of 'touch' should cover the cases I'm aware of.

>
>    -
>    - Test suites that fail will not block package promotion, unless those
>    failures are regressions (i.e.- they have passed in the past).
>    - Test authors *must* make tests skip if they're run in an
>    incompatible environment (hint: if you're writing autopilot tests, the
>    autopilot.platform module might help here).
>
>
> Did I miss anything?
>
>
> Steve - does this answer your question?
>
> --
> Thomi Richards
> thomi.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>



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Francis Ginther
Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering - Continuous Integration Team