* Do tests with pytest to run them in parallel

* attempt to handle merge commits better for PR test path

Similar to how we solved this for travis

* Clean up imports

* don't run valgrind if not specified slow_test

* Fix functest after initializer rename

* upload tests results as junit

* Upload test-common files since #200 got merged

* Catch test results upload failure

Modify the tests to no longer construct the classes multiple times and
to have them make use of the new helpers.make() function.