Stefan Miklosovic created CASSANDRA-18863:
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             Summary: Some tests are depending on each other
                 Key: CASSANDRA-18863
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18863
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Test/unit
            Reporter: Stefan Miklosovic


I noticed this first when dealing with (1)

Simple bash gives:
{code:java}
for i in $(find . -type f -name '*Test.java'); do imports=$(grep 'import 
org.apache.*Test;' $i | grep -v 'Abstract'); if [ x"$imports" != "x" ]; then 
echo $i $imports; fi; done./org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStoreTest.java 
import org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.ScrubTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/db/compaction/CompactionsCQLTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.LegacySSTableTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/db/compaction/PartialCompactionsTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.db.DirectoriesTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/locator/ReconnectableSnitchHelperTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.net.MessagingServiceTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/tools/nodetool/ScrubToolTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.ScrubTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/tools/StandaloneUpgraderOnSStablesTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.LegacySSTableTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/tools/StandaloneVerifierTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.VerifyTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/tools/StandaloneVerifierOnSSTablesTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.VerifyTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/repair/asymmetric/DifferenceHolderTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.MerkleTreesTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/repair/ValidatorTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionsTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/fql/FullQueryLoggerTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.binlog.BinLogTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/index/sai/cql/InetAddressTypeEquivalencyTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.index.sai.cql.types.InetTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/io/compress/CompressedSequentialWriterTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.io.util.SequentialWriterTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/LegacySSTableTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.db.SinglePartitionSliceCommandTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/audit/BinAuditLoggerTest.java import 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.binlog.BinLogTest;
./org/apache/cassandra/cql3/validation/operations/CompactStorageSplit1Test.java 
import org.apache.cassandra.cql3.validation.entities.SecondaryIndexTest; {code}
If one goes one by one, there are some cases when one test is trully depending 
on another. I do not think this is a good practice at all.  Each test should be 
self-contained or at least all common parts which are reused should be 
extracted to some helper classes. As it is done right now, if one changes the 
implementation of some helper methods in on test, it might fail others. If it 
is extracted, it is more probable that a developer would check where that 
method is used additionally to the place a developer is focused on. Right now 
if a developer changes a method in a test that method is specified in, she does 
not have a clue that it might be used somewhere else.



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