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Steve Loughran commented on HADOOP-12610:
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HDFS-9514 failing. [~jojochuang]: if you want to work on this, the ones that 
fail are the obvious target —we need those fixes to find the real causes

> Tests lose stack traces on failures
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-12610
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12610
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: test
>            Reporter: Wei-Chiu Chuang
>            Assignee: Wei-Chiu Chuang
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: supportability
>
> 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}
> I am filing this JIRA to make failure messages more verbose and make 
> debugging easier. There are of course similar patterns in other part of 
> Hadoop codebase, but I am starting with this one because I do see test 
> failures here.



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