Running the live tests

[Tim Penhey]

Hi All,

Today I had my first go at running the live tests.

It isn't documented anywhere (at least not where I looked) on how to run
the live tests.  I'm considering adding this to the tree somewhere,
perhaps docs/testing.txt.

What I ended up doing was:
  $ cd $GOPATH/src/launchpad.net/juju-core/environs/ec2
  $ time go test -test.timeout=1200s -amazon

I run the suite three times.  The time taken ranged between 15 and 20
minutes, and I got no clean runs.

Over the three different runs I did however get successful runs of all
the tests, but not all at the same time.

What is the expected behaviour here?

Do we know why the tests are not consistently passing?  Is it due to how
the tests are written, or is it generally EC2 stuff?  If it is EC2
issues, how could we change the tests to pass more consistently?

Cheers,
Tim