Wei-Chiu Chuang created HADOOP-12610: ----------------------------------------
Summary: Make test failure messages more verbose and supportable Key: HADOOP-12610 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12610 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Wei-Chiu Chuang Assignee: Wei-Chiu Chuang Priority: Minor I saw a test failure in TestCompressorDecompressor.testCompressorDecompressor with the output Error Message {noformat} testCompressorDecompressor error !!!java.lang.NullPointerException {noformat} Stacktrace {noformat} java.lang.AssertionError: testCompressorDecompressor error !!!java.lang.NullPointerException at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:88) at org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.TestCompressorDecompressor.testCompressorDecompressor(TestCompressorDecompressor.java:69) {noformat} However, this message does not expose the origin of the exception, nor does it print the error message. This makes debugging impossible. I also found the similar practice exists in multiple test files: {noformat} ~/hadoop/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common ((c21a801...)) $ grep -r "fail(.*+ e" .|less ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/net/TestNetworkTopologyWithNodeGroup.java: fail("Expecting IllegalArgumentException, but caught:" + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/nativeio/TestNativeIO.java: fail("Got unexpected exception: " + e.getMessage()); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/nativeio/TestNativeIO.java: fail("Got unexpected exception: " + e.getMessage()); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/nativeio/TestNativeIO.java: fail("Got unexpected exception: " + e.getMessage()); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/TestMapFile.java: fail("testRename error " + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/snappy/TestSnappyCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testSnappyDirectBlockCompression ex !!!" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testCompressorDecompressor error !!!" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testCompressorDecompressorWithExeedBufferLimit error !!!" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testZlibCompressorDecompressorWithConfiguration ex error " + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testZlibCompressDecompress ex !!!" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testZlibDirectCompressDecompress ex !!!" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testBuiltInGzipDecompressorExceptions npe error " + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testBuiltInGzipDecompressorExceptions aioob error" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("invalid 0 and 1 byte in gzip stream" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("invalid 2 byte in gzip stream" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("invalid 3 byte in gzip stream" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/zlib/TestZlibCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("invalid 3 byte make hasExtraField" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testCompressorDecompressor error !!!" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testCompressorDecompressorWithExeedBufferLimit error !!!" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestBlockDecompressorStream.java: fail("unexpected IOException : " + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/bzip2/TestBzip2CompressorDecompressor.java: fail("testBzip2CompressDecompress ex !!!" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/bloom/BloomFilterCommonTester.java: Assert.fail("" + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/bloom/BloomFilterCommonTester.java: Assert.fail("" + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/bloom/BloomFilterCommonTester.java: Assert.fail("" + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/bloom/BloomFilterCommonTester.java: Assert.fail("" + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/bloom/BloomFilterCommonTester.java: Assert.fail("" + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/bloom/BloomFilterCommonTester.java: Assert.fail("" + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/bloom/BloomFilterCommonTester.java: Assert.fail("" + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/bloom/BloomFilterCommonTester.java: Assert.fail("" + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/bloom/BloomFilterCommonTester.java: Assert.fail("error ex !!!" + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestShell.java: fail("Expected an exception with the text `" + expectedText + "`" ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestShell.java: fail("Expected an exception with the text `" + expectedText + "`" ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tracing/SetSpanReceiver.java: Assert.fail("timed out to get expected spans: " + e.getMessage()); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tracing/SetSpanReceiver.java: Assert.fail("interrupted while waiting spans: " + e.getMessage()); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPCCompatibility.java: fail("Expected version mismatch but got " + ex); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPC.java: fail("Expecting HadoopIllegalArgumentException but caught " + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPC.java: fail("Expecting HadoopIllegalArgumentException but caught " + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPC.java: fail("Expecting HadoopIllegalArgumentException but caught " + e); ./src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/token/delegation/TestDelegationToken.java: Assert.fail("action did not throw " + except); {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)