[SLIDER-1039] Run slider-agent (py)tests from target directory not src directory

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Slider 0.91
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Josh Elser
• Reporter: Josh Elser
• Created: 28/Dec/15 19:12
• Updated: 06/Jan/16 19:26
• Resolved: 28/Dec/15 21:05

Description

I had to -1 the slider-0.90.2-incubating RC0 build because I saw a bunch of pyc files in the source archive.

Upon investigation on how these got there, it seems like the pytests that we run for the slider-agent module are invoked inside the src/ directory.

We should really follow the same approach that is done for the Java files:

• Compilation from src into target (just a copy for python)
• Invocation of tests from inside target

This should net us two things:

• A build does not dirty the workspace (lots of ways this is good)
• We can remove the *.pyc entry from .gitignore