There are dozens of extensions for which the same case could be made. One way to deal with it would be to have tempest first ask for a list of the extensions and mark each test class with a required extension, skipping the test is it is not present. This would be a fair bit of work.
This bug is very old, and hasn't been updated in a long time.
I guess this bug is no longer valid since the connect_method key was added to the tempest configuration file under the [vaildation] section.
I will close this bug as Incomplete, if someone think this bug should remain open please provide more information and re-open it.
There are dozens of extensions for which the same case could be made. One way to deal with it would be to have tempest first ask for a list of the extensions and mark each test class with a required extension, skipping the test is it is not present. This would be a fair bit of work.