Unfortunately, Gossip falls into the category of "usually we have to test it manually."
You might be able to do something using ccm [1] and the recently added JMX hooks for Gossip [2], as in this script: [3]. But again, if you decide to test manually you won't be alone. :) [1] https://github.com/pcmanus/ccm [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2806 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12488169/reliable_short_read_0.8.sh 2011/8/30 Jérémy SEVELLEC <jsevel...@gmail.com>: > Hello everyone, > > Let me present me : I'm Jeremy. I'm French and author of cassandra-unit. I > trying to help on Cassandra. > > > I'm looking at the > CASSANDRA-2961<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2961> > which is about gossip and dead states removal. I'm trying to understand how > unit tests are done about gossip. For now, I've just find some unit test > into org.apache.cassandra.gms but there is not a lot of things. > > how did you usually make your gossip tests? > > Regards, > > -- > Jérémy > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com