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+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+#
+# This script is executed in the Xen Project OpenStack CI dsvm-tempest-xen job.
+# It's used to configure which tempest tests actually get run.  You can find
+# the CI job configuration here:
+#
+# https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=openstack/ci-loop-config.git;a=blob;f=jenkins/jobs/jobs.yaml;hb=HEAD
+#
+
+# When adding entries to the regex, add a comment explaining why
+# since this list should not grow.
+
+# exclude the slow tag
+r="\[.*\bslow\b.*\]"
+
+# volume_swap fail
+# https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1676499
+r="$r|tempest\.api\.compute\.admin\.test_volume_swap\.TestVolumeSwap\.test_volume_swap"
+
+# Because paused guest can not be snapshot
+# https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1675787
+r="$r|tempest\.api\.compute\.images\.test_images\.ImagesTestJSON\.test_create_image_from_paused_server"
+
+r="^(?!.*(?:$r))(?:^tempest\.(?:api|scenario|thirdparty))"
+export DEVSTACK_GATE_TEMPEST_REGEX="$r"