diff --git a/HACKING.rst b/HACKING.rst
index 5b9c0f1..e767b25 100644
--- a/HACKING.rst
+++ b/HACKING.rst
@@ -349,18 +349,19 @@
 docstrings for the workflow in each test methods can be used instead. A good
 example of this would be::
 
-    class TestVolumeBootPattern(manager.ScenarioTest):
-        """
-        This test case attempts to reproduce the following steps:
+    class TestServerBasicOps(manager.ScenarioTest):
 
-         * Create in Cinder some bootable volume importing a Glance image
-         * Boot an instance from the bootable volume
-         * Write content to the volume
-         * Delete an instance and Boot a new instance from the volume
-         * Check written content in the instance
-         * Create a volume snapshot while the instance is running
-         * Boot an additional instance from the new snapshot based volume
-         * Check written content in the instance booted from snapshot
+        """The test suite for server basic operations
+
+        This smoke test case follows this basic set of operations:
+         * Create a keypair for use in launching an instance
+         * Create a security group to control network access in instance
+         * Add simple permissive rules to the security group
+         * Launch an instance
+         * Perform ssh to instance
+         * Verify metadata service
+         * Verify metadata on config_drive
+         * Terminate the instance
         """
 
 Test Identification with Idempotent ID
diff --git a/tempest/api/volume/admin/test_backends_capabilities.py b/tempest/api/volume/admin/test_backends_capabilities.py
index 607fc43..affed6b 100644
--- a/tempest/api/volume/admin/test_backends_capabilities.py
+++ b/tempest/api/volume/admin/test_backends_capabilities.py
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@
         ]
 
         # Returns a tuple of VOLUME_STATS values
-        expected_list = list(map(operator.itemgetter(*VOLUME_STATS),
-                             cinder_pools))
-        observed_list = list(map(operator.itemgetter(*VOLUME_STATS),
-                             capabilities))
+        expected_list = sorted(list(map(operator.itemgetter(*VOLUME_STATS),
+                                        cinder_pools)))
+        observed_list = sorted(list(map(operator.itemgetter(*VOLUME_STATS),
+                                        capabilities)))
         self.assertEqual(expected_list, observed_list)