in tests, copy an existing product rather than creating a new one to avoid...

 in tests, copy an existing product rather than creating a new one to avoid problems with new required fields in other modules
and also  remove description from manifest as README.rst will be used automatically instead

NEWS.rst

+11.0.1.2
+--------
+
+In tests, copy a product rather than create a new one, that way required fields will be already filled.
+
 11.0.1.1
 --------
 

__manifest__.py

 ##############################################################################
 #
-#    Accounting periods, for Odoo
-#    Copyright (C) 2018 XCG Consulting <http://odoo.consulting>
+#    Accounting Periods, for Odoo
+#    Copyright (C) 2018, 2020 XCG Consulting <http://odoo.consulting>
 #
 #    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 #    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
@@ -19,5 +19,5 @@
 ##############################################################################
 
 {
-    "name": "Accounting periods",
+    "name": "Accounting Periods",
     "license": "AGPL-3",
@@ -23,15 +23,6 @@
     "license": "AGPL-3",
-    "description": """
-Accounting periods
-==================
-
-Per-period accounting concept. Periods can be individually closed.
-
-This module also adds a transaction date in accounting documents.
-
-Inspired from what used to be available in previous Odoo versions.
-""",
-    "version": "11.0.1.1",
+    "summary": "Add period accounting concept",
+    "version": "11.0.1.2",
     "category": "Accounting",
     "author": "XCG Consulting",
     "website": "http://odoo.consulting/",

doc/NEWS.rst

+../NEWS.rst
\ No newline at end of file

tests/test_account_period.py

@@ -79,13 +79,6 @@
     def test_0002_create_products(self):
         """Create products for use in further tests.
         """
-
-        def createProduct(values):
-            """Create a product template and return its product variant."""
-            ptemplate, = self.createAndTest("product.template", [values])
-            product = ptemplate.product_variant_ids
-            self.assertEqual(len(product), 1)
-            return product
-
-        self.memory.product = createProduct(
+        self.memory.product = self.browse_ref("product.service_cost_01").copy()
+        self.memory.product.write(
             {
@@ -91,4 +84,3 @@
             {
-                "name": genUuid(),
                 "property_account_expense_id": self.memory.account.id,
                 "property_account_income_id": self.memory.account.id,
@@ -93,6 +85,5 @@
                 "property_account_expense_id": self.memory.account.id,
                 "property_account_income_id": self.memory.account.id,
-                "type": "service",
             }
         )