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jay vyas edited comment on BIGTOP-1222 at 7/16/14 2:08 AM:
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build.gradle expects all the usual suspects ( PIG_HOME,HADOOP_CONF_DIR and so 
on) to be declared, or it wont run.  

I can probably make it a little smarter, so that it only requires PIG_HOME if 
indeed pig tests are being run, and so on. 

[~dawson.choong] are you interested in helping me on the patch?  That would be 
awesome !   Im busy right now again, and wont be able to finish this patch 
until later in the week,but if your ready - Maybe you can  pull the patch down, 
add a few extensions to it, and create a second patch of your own. Then to 
complete the JIRA, we can just commit both patches at once in the proper order.


was (Author: jayunit100):
build.gradle expects all the usual suspects ( PIG_HOME,HADOOP_CONF_DIR and so 
on) to be declared, or it wont run.  

I can probably make it a little smarter, so that it only requires PIG_HOME if 
indeed pig tests are being run, and so on. 

Dawson are you interested in helping me on the patch?  That would be awesome !  
 Im busy right now again, and wont be able to finish this patch until later in 
the week,but if your ready - Maybe you can  pull the patch down, add a few 
extensions to it, and create a second patch of your own. Then to complete the 
JIRA, we can just commit both patches at once in the proper order.

> Simplify and gradleize a subset of the bigtop smokes
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIGTOP-1222
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1222
>             Project: Bigtop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Build, Tests
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.0
>            Reporter: jay vyas
>            Assignee: jay vyas
>             Fix For: backlog
>
>         Attachments: BIGTOP-1222-2.patch, BIGTOP-1222.patch, 
> BIGTOP-1222.patch, BIGTOP-1222.patch, BIGTOP-1222.patch, BIGTOP-1222.patch
>
>
> (Rewritten the description for clarity)
> We need an easier way to run bigtop smoke tests, and gradle provides this:
> 1) Easy to script/modify
> 2) Human readable
> 3) equally oriented towards both groovy and plain old java
> The advantage of this method to running smokes : 
> 1) No need to compile a jar : this is a costly step and not much value added, 
> also creates indirection which can make debugging a broken test very hard.
> 2) Simple: A smoke test doesnt need to make low level API calls or be 
> compiled against the right APIs - rather, it should test the end user 
> interface ("hive -q  ....", "pig -x ....", "hadoop jar ....", and so on).  
> 3) Customizable:  The smoke tests shouldnt require users to have to write XML 
> and debug environmental variables / grep around for System properties etc.  
> Rather, a high level controller should do all that checking for you.  
> The initial idea was to write a python/bash implementation wrapper of 
> scripts, but that was replaced by the idea of using gradle.  The advantage of 
> gradle is that we don't need to manually set the classpath and run groovy 
> commands: Gradle wraps groovy scripts in their native java context quite 
> nicely - but it doesnt add any other unnecessary overhead (xml, jar files, no 
> need for complex xml tag wrappers for simple tasks - just plain groovy code).
> So, here the goal is just to create a nice, clean, extensible non-jar, 
> non-API dependent gradle runner for the smoke tests which exersizes the 
> hadoop cluster the same way a typical end-user would.



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