Add retry mechanism for Tempest functional tests

Registered by Valeriy Ponomaryov

We need to have "retry" mechanism for our tests in Tempest for case of some instabilities in infrastructure that is not related to functionality directly. For example, if we are testing something with shares and need to create share, but could not do it because of some low error. And it can be ok after second attempt. It should satisfy us, because we failed not on "tested" functionality, but on "pre_setup" that is not the goal of testing in many cases.

It will reduce false failures of gates.

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
Ben Swartzlander
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Valeriy Ponomaryov
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Valeriy Ponomaryov
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for kilo
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2015.1.0
Started by
Valeriy Ponomaryov
Completed by
Valeriy Ponomaryov

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

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/144141
    Add retries for share creation within Tempest plugin

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