Currently the error was not propagated from the timeout handler properly, and we had PASSED tests even with timeouts. Signed-off-by: Katerina Koukiou <kkoukiou(a)redhat.com&gt; --- test/libvirttest.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/test/libvirttest.py b/test/libvirttest.py index 7168e66..d1b71cc 100644 --- a/test/libvirttest.py +++ b/test/libvirttest.py @@ -60,11 +60,14 @@ class BaseTestClass(): def timeout(): self.loop.quit() del self.loop - raise TimeoutError() + self.timeout = True + self.timeout = False self.loop = GLib.MainLoop() GLib.timeout_add(2000, timeout) self.loop.run() + if self.timeout: + raise TimeoutError() def domain(self): path = self.connect.ListDomains(0)[0] -- 2.15.0