Disable simulator tests so the stage1 of Travis can succeed.

If the binary is not found, then the test will skip in stage1,
on later stages, there's a build step that will make travis fail
if something is wrong.

qiskit/backends/_qasm_simulator_cpp.py

@@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ EXTENSION = '.exe' if platform.system() == 'Windows' else ''
 DEFAULT_SIMULATOR_PATHS = [
     # This is the path where Makefile creates the simulator by default
     os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
-                    '../../out/src/qasm-simulator-cpp/qasm_simulator_cpp' + EXTENSION)),
+                                 '../../out/src/qasm-simulator-cpp/qasm_simulator_cpp'
+                                 + EXTENSION)),
     # This is the path where PIP installs the simulator
     os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
-                    'qasm_simulator_cpp' + EXTENSION)),
+                                 'qasm_simulator_cpp' + EXTENSION)),
 ]
 
 

test/python/test_local_qasm_simulator_cpp.py

@@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ class TestLocalQasmSimulatorCpp(QiskitTestCase):
                                 backend='local_qiskit_simulator',
                                 preformatted=True)
         # Simulator backend
-        self.backend = QasmSimulatorCpp.QasmSimulatorCpp()
+        try:
+            self.backend = QasmSimulatorCpp.QasmSimulatorCpp()
+        except FileNotFoundError as fnferr:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest(
+                'cannot find {} in path'.format(fnferr))
 
     def test_x90_coherent_error_matrix(self):
         X90 = np.array([[1, -1j], [-1j, 1]]) / np.sqrt(2)