I love DTest I think it is a great thing in the tool belt. One thing that I want to point out, nosettests and dtests are black-box type testing. You can not step or trace these things very easily.
My dream would be if cassandra was re-entrant and it was possible to run a 3 node cluster in one JVM and set a break point. I think you could prove out many things much easier and faster. On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Moved from PMC as there is nothing really private involved] > > DataStax has graciously offered to contribute cassandra-dtest [0] to > the project. > > There were, however, two issues noted by Jonathan when he presented > the offer to the PMC: > > 1. dtest mixes tests for many cassandra versions together in a single > project. So having it live in the main cassandra repo, versioned by > cassandra release, doesn't really make sense. Is Infra able to create a > second repo for this, or is the "one project, one repo" mapping fixed? > > 2. DataStax did not require a CLA to contribute to dtest, so the non-DS > contributors to dtest would need to be contacted for their permission to > assign copyright to the ASF. Is the PMC willing to tackle this? > > In a brief discussion, it was deduced that #1 can be addressed by > adding apache/cassandra-dtest to the ASF repo (the example of > apache/aurora and apache/aurora-packaging was given to justify this). > > #2 will be harder as it will require tracking a few people people down > to sign ASF CLAs. > > Before we really put effort into this, I wanted to open the discussion > up about whether we are willing to take on the development of this in > the project. Thoughts? > > -Nate > > > [0] https://github.com/riptano/cassandra-dtest >
