Jens Rabe created HADOOP-11849: ---------------------------------- Summary: There should be a JUnit test runner which automatically initializes the mini cluster Key: HADOOP-11849 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11849 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Components: test Reporter: Jens Rabe Priority: Minor
Setting up the mini cluster is not a big deal, but when writing a larger amount of integration tests, one quickly has a lot of code duplication. Creating abstract test classes which set up the cluster is a feasible solution, but then there is the problem with the order of *BeforeClass*, especially when a lengthy MR job is to be run exactly once and several tests then check the output data. It would be nice if the following were possible: {code:java} @RunWith(MiniCluster.class) public class SomeLengthyIntegrationTest { @Conf private static Configuration _conf; @FS private static FileSystem _fs; @BeforeClass public static void runMRJob() throws Exception { final Job job = Job.getInstance(_conf); // ... set up the job assertTrue("Job was successful", job.waitForCompletion(true)); } @Test public void testSomething() { // a test } // more tests } Maybe there could be more annotation-driven configuration options. A nice example for such an approach is the *SpringJUnit4ClassRunner* from the Spring framework. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)