create a way to determine coverage of nova from external testing

Registered by Sean Dague

To better understand how Tempest and other external test tools exercise nova we should have a way to enable coverage reporting from within nova services by an external program for test runs. Once available in nova, tempest and devstack gate will be enhanced to make this a nightly runable report.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Russell Bryant
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Sean Dague
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Matthew Treinish
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for grizzly
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2013.1
Started by
Thierry Carrez
Completed by
Thierry Carrez

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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/coverage-extension,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/14468
    Add coverage extension to nova API.

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/17498
    Add host to get backdoor port for network api.

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/for,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/130855
    Blueprint for re-adding the coverage extension

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