RedHatQE/cfme_tests — pull request #495 by psav (2014-02-28 11:53:34+00:00)
Title: Adding more robustness to validate function

_do_stats_match seems to be a cause for failures a lot
This is a proposal to make it less of a pain, and is only one way of doing it, currently we:
* collect the stats from the host
* refresh the details page until a match is made

This process can take multiple minutes, during which time the stats can change (vms being added/deleted) the idea is to run for the default of 5 minutes for stats match and if that process fails, we take one last ditch effort at it.

The other way of approaching this is to put the host collection inside the the stats match function, this increases load on the host provider, but could be alleviated by lengthening the delay time on the refire of wait_for.....

comments....suggestions???