From 80deb5fc57a01e90fafbe6a3a156ab81706d07bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Kunz Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 22:44:00 +0200 Subject: 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 (cherry picked from commit 8048568b27c8b6fb5a5a269c66f722bceb4b338d) --- docs/testing/user/userguide/testing_guide.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/testing/user/userguide') diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/testing_guide.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/testing_guide.rst index 54fa294b..3fc74028 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/userguide/testing_guide.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/testing_guide.rst @@ -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 -- cgit 1.2.3-korg