Where to place common tests for different scenarios?

[ussserrr]

I had a role with default project structure and default scenario:

├── README.md
├── defaults
├── files
├── meta
├── molecule
│   └── default
│       ├── converge.yml
│       ├── molecule.yml
│       ├── tests
│       │     <some tests .yml files here>
│       ├── vars
│       │   └── all.yml
│       └── verify.yml
├── tasks
...

Recently I've added another scenario but the tests are common for both of them so I don't want to double but include them in both scenarios. The question is, where to put these tests? If I just place them at the root molecule dir,

├── molecule
│   ├── docker
│   │   ├── converge.yml
│   │   ├── molecule.yml
│   │   └── verify.yml
│   ├── tests
│   │     ...
│   ├── vars
│   │   └── all.yml
│   └── vm
│       ├── converge.yml
│       ├── molecule.yml
│       └── verify.yml
...

ansible-lint is complaining (it sees tests as standalone playbooks and analyzing them accordingly - throwing errors like 'ansible.builtin.command' is not a valid attribute for a Play). I didn't found any recipes for such cases anywhere.

[zhan9san]

Does a symbolic link work for your case?

[ussserrr]

@zhan9san You mean to store the tests somewhere else and have a symlink to them at the molecule folder? This doesn't look like an elegant solution to me... I'd rather store everything at the repo with a straightforward tree structure. Maybe there is a some option for the linter to treat these tests normally? Also, when I generate a new role via molecule CLI it creates <role name>/tests folder and I didn't found anywhere any explanation of what it is.