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authorGeorg Kunz <georg.kunz@ericsson.com>2018-05-02 22:44:00 +0200
committerGeorg Kunz <georg.kunz@ericsson.com>2018-05-14 12:25:54 +0000
commit80deb5fc57a01e90fafbe6a3a156ab81706d07bd (patch)
treecdd6367b53f527e6a6dea9220d4b978da2125935 /docs/testing/user/userguide
parent4fa48a49b82c2cc902843eaf1389d884e1fd45f9 (diff)
Adding documentation for API validation exemption
Updating the user guide and OVP addendum to include references to the detailed document describing the API response validation exemption. JIRA: DOVETAIL-651 Change-Id: I4026f84f021704f0986b45680471e8fb711fc314 Signed-off-by: Georg Kunz <georg.kunz@ericsson.com> (cherry picked from commit 8048568b27c8b6fb5a5a269c66f722bceb4b338d)
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@@ -553,6 +553,17 @@ arguments 'ipv6', 'sdnvpn' and 'tempest'.
$ dovetail run --testarea mandatory
+Dovetail allows the user to disable strict API response validation implemented
+by Nova Tempest tests by means of the ``--no-api-validation`` option. Usage of
+this option is only advisable if the SUT returns Nova API responses that
+contain additional attributes. For more information on this command line option
+and its intended usage, refer to
+:ref:`dovetail-exemption_process_api_response_validation`.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ dovetail run --no-api-validation
+
By default, results are stored in local files on the Test Host at ``$DOVETAIL_HOME/results``.
Each time the 'dovetail run' command is executed, the results in the aforementioned directory
are overwritten. To create a singular compressed result file for upload to the OVP portal or