tests: apply KISS to retry fixture

This python fixture was way too complex for what is needed.

Eliminate gratuitous options/over-engineering:

- Change from non-deterministic `wait` and `attempts` to a single
`retry_timeout` value. This is both more deterministic, as well as
what the user should actually be thinking about.

- Use a fixed 2 second pause between executing the wrapped function
rather than a bunch of arbitrary choices of 2, 3 and 4 seconds
spread all over the test code.

- Get rid of the multiple variables for determining what "Positive" and
"Negative" results are. Instead just implement what all the user code
already wants, i.e., boolean False or a str (errormsg) means
"Negative" result otherwise it's a "Positive" result.

- As part of the above the inversion logic is much more comprehensible
in the fixture code (and more correct to boot).

Signed-off-by: Christian Hopps <chopps@labn.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/topotests/ospf_basic_functionality/test_ospf_rte_calc.py b/tests/topotests/ospf_basic_functionality/test_ospf_rte_calc.py
index 9dfde325f6..f17346d5b1 100644
--- a/tests/topotests/ospf_basic_functionality/test_ospf_rte_calc.py
+++ b/tests/topotests/ospf_basic_functionality/test_ospf_rte_calc.py
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ def test_ospf_redistribution_tc5_p0(request):
         input_dict,
         protocol=protocol,
         next_hop=nh,
-        attempts=5,
+        retry_timeout=10,
         expected=False,
     )
     assert result is not True, (