Wei-Chiu Chuang created HADOOP-12610:
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             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
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testCompressorDecompressor error !!!java.lang.NullPointerException
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Stacktrace
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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)
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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:

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~/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);


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