Delete recordings infrastructure with related tests

.ado/ci.yml

@@ -68,12 +68,6 @@ jobs:
           pip freeze
         displayName: List installed packages
 
-      - script: |
-          cd $(Build.SourcesDirectory)/azure-quantum
-          pip install ".[cirq,qsharp,dev]"
-          pytest --numprocesses $(PYTEST_MAX_PARALLEL_TESTS) --cov-report term --cov=azure.quantum --junitxml test-output-azure-quantum.xml --ignore tests/unit/test_qiskit.py --ignore tests/unit/test_session_qiskit.py $(Build.SourcesDirectory)/azure-quantum --ignore tests/unit/local
-        displayName: Run azure-quantum unit tests
-
       - script: |
           cd $(Build.SourcesDirectory)/azure-quantum
           # Run local-only tests explicitly to include nested path under unit/local

.ado/publish.yml

@@ -118,12 +118,6 @@ extends:
                   pip freeze
                 displayName: List installed packages
 
-              - script: |
-                  cd $(Build.SourcesDirectory)/azure-quantum
-                  pip install ".[cirq,qsharp,dev]"
-                  pytest --numprocesses $(PYTEST_MAX_PARALLEL_TESTS) --cov-report term --cov=azure.quantum --junitxml test-output-azure-quantum.xml --ignore tests/unit/test_qiskit.py --ignore tests/unit/test_session_qiskit.py $(Build.SourcesDirectory)/azure-quantum --ignore tests/unit/local
-                displayName: Run azure-quantum unit tests
-
               - script: |
                   cd $(Build.SourcesDirectory)/azure-quantum
                   # Run local-only tests explicitly to include nested path under unit/local

.gitignore

@@ -404,8 +404,6 @@ azure-quantum/azure/quantum/version.py
 azure-quantum/dist
 azure-quantum/temp
 azure-quantum/build
-!azure-quantum/tests/unit/recordings/*.yaml
-!azure-quantum/tests/unit/aio/recordings/*.yaml
 *.txt
 !azure-quantum/requirements*.txt
 [.][v]env/

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -54,12 +54,6 @@ To run the a specific unit test case, run:
 pytest -k test_job_refresh
 ```
 
-### Recordings
-
-To read more about how to create and update recordings for testing code that interacts with a live API, see the [README](./azure-quantum/tests/README.md).
-
-Before merging your code contribution to `main`, make sure that all new code is covered by unit tests and that the unit tests have up-to-date recordings. If you recorded your tests and then updated or refactored the code, remember to re-record the tests.
-
 ## Building the `azure-quantum` Package wheel
 
 The Azure Quantum Python SDK uses a standard `setuptools`-based packaging strategy.
@@ -155,9 +149,9 @@ The `tox run -e generate` call will look for a `tsp-location.yaml` file in your
 
 ### After re-generating the client make sure to:
 
-1. Re-run/Re-record all unit tests against the live-service (you can run [Record-Tests.ps1](./azure-quantum/eng/Record-Tests.ps1))
 1. If necessary, adjust the convenience layer for breaking-changes or to expose new features
-1. Add new unit-tests for new features and record them too
+1. Add new unit-tests for new features
+1. Update/add e2e tests in separate repo if necessary 
 
 ## Environment Variables ###
 

NOTICE

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ required to debug changes to any libraries licensed under the GNU Lesser General
 
 qiskit-ionq helpers and exceptions (commit cea8f9874b992f82a35648582c06958869370c69) - Apache-2.0
 
-Portions of azure.quantum.qiskit.backends._qiskit_ionq.py and azure-quantum/tests/unit/test_qiskit.py 
+Portions of azure.quantum.qiskit.backends._qiskit_ionq.py and azure-quantum/tests/unit/local/test_qiskit_offline.py 
 are adapted from qiskit-community/qiskit-ionq (ionq_gates.py, helpers.py, and exceptions.py) to
 support Qiskit BackendV2.
 Copyright 2017-2018 IBM and 2020-2021 IonQ, Inc.

azure-quantum/eng/Clear-Env-Vars.ps1

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ $env:AZURE_QUANTUM_ENV = $null
 $env:AZURE_CLIENT_ID = $null
 $env:AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET = $null
 $env:AZURE_TENANT_ID = $null
-$env:AZURE_TEST_RUN_LIVE = $null
 $env:AZURE_QUANTUM_WORKSPACE_RG = $null
 $env:SUBSCRIPTION_ID = $null
 $env:AZURE_QUANTUM_WORKSPACE_NAME = $null

azure-quantum/requirements-dev.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 pytest>=7.1.2
 pytest-xdist>=3.8.0,<4.0
-vcrpy>=4.3.1 # fixes https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy/issues/688
-azure-devtools>=1.2.0,<2.0
 graphviz>=0.20.1
 tox>=4.32.0

azure-quantum/requirements.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 azure-core>=1.30,<2.0
 azure-identity>=1.17,<2.0
-# TODO: recent versions break recordings. 
-# More than one match for "https://mystorage.blob.core.windows.net/.../rawOutputData"
-azure-storage-blob==12.20
+azure-storage-blob>=12.20,<13.0
 msrest>=0.7.1,<1.0
 numpy>=1.21.0
 deprecated>=1.2.12,<2.0