Upgrade Notes¶

• Python 2.7 support has been dropped. The minimum version of Python nowsupported by oslotest is Python 3.6.

• Theoslotest.functional module, which was deprecated in 2.18.1, hasnow been removed. This module was overly complicated and had no users.

• Theoslotest.moxstubout module, which was deprecated in 3.5.0, has nowbeen removed. Mox is considered unmaintained and should be replaced bymock.

New Features¶

• New class variable,TIMEOUT_SCALING_FACTOR was added that allowsmodifying a test class to have a longer timeout than other tests in thesuite without having to raise the default timeout for all tests.

• New class variable,DEFAULT_TIMEOUT was added that lets test suiteauthors override the default value ofOS_TEST_TIMEOUT at thetest suite level.

New Features¶

• Change the API for the CaptureOutput fixture so that tests mayenable it explicitly instead of purely relying on the environmentvariables to control it.

Other Notes¶

• Oslotest now contains the mock_fixture module, which offers fixes to theautospec functionality in the mock library.

Upgrade Notes¶

• As announced in Nov 2015, the oslotest.mockpatch module got removed now.Please use fixtures.Mock* classes instead.

Deprecation Notes¶

• oslotest.functional is deprecated and will be removed with oslotest 3.0.0 .

Other Notes¶

• Introduce reno for deployer release notes.