Eric- Can you explain how Powermock differs from/augments Mockito, why we should adopt it, and maybe an example of an existing test that could be improved using this library? -C
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Eric Yang <ey...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > Hi Hadoop-dev, > > Long time ago, Hadoop community decided to put Powermock on hold for unit > tests. Both mockito and powermock has evolved a lot in the past 5 years. > There are mature versions of both software, and there are compatibility > charts to indicate which versions can work together. Hadoop has grown a lot > in the last 5 years. It becomes apparent that without ability to instrument > lower level classes to contain unit test scope. Many tests are written to > simulate integration test in order to perform unit tests. The result is slow > performance on unit tests, and some parts are not testable strictly in unit > test case. This discussion is to revisit the decision, and see if we would > embrace Powermock and allow HADOOP-9122 to be implemented. Feel free to > comment on HADOOP-9122 and this thread to revisit this issue. > > Thank you for your time. > > Regards, > Eric --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org
