> This is a huge improvement in runtime (understatement of the day award…

Agreed 100%.  Love what I’m seeing here.  Anything that improves the ease and 
accessibility of testing is awesome in my book.  Apologies for not being 
involved in the fixes, I had intended to contribute over the break but life got 
in the way :(




> On Jan 10, 2018, at 12:05 PM, Michael Kjellman <mkjell...@internalcircle.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> plan of action is to continue running everything on asf jenkins.
> 
> in additional all developers (just like today) will be free to run the unit 
> tests and as many of the dtests as possible against their local test branches 
> in circleci. circleci offers a free OSS account with 4 containers. while it 
> will be slow, it will run. additionally anyone who wants more speed is 
> obviously free to upgrade their account.
> 
> does that plan resolve any concerns you have?
> 
> On Jan 10, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Josh McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> 1) have *all* our tests run on *every* commit
>> 
>> Have we discussed the cost / funding aspect of this? I know we as a project
>> have run into infra-donation cost issues in the past with differentiating
>> between ASF as a whole and cassandra as a project, so not sure how that'd
>> work in terms of sponsors funding circleci containers just for this
>> project's use, for instance.
>> 
>> This is a huge improvement in runtime (understatement of the day award...)
>> so great work on that front.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Making these tests more accessible and reliable is super huge. There
>>> are a lot of folks in our community who are not well versed with
>>> python (myself included). I wholly support *any* efforts we can make
>>> for the dtest process to be easy.
>>> 
>>> Thanks a bunch for taking this on. I think it will pay off quickly.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Michael Kjellman <kjell...@apple.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> hi!
>>>> 
>>>> a few of us have been continuously iterating on the dtest-on-pytest
>>> branch now since the 2nd and we’ve run the dtests close to 600 times in ci.
>>> ariel has been working his way thru a formal review (three cheers for
>>> ariel!)
>>>> 
>>>> flaky tests are a real thing and despite a few dozen totally green test
>>> runs, the vast majority of runs are still reliably hitting roughly 1-3 test
>>> failures. in a world where we can now run the dtests in 20 minutes instead
>>> of 13 hours it’s now at least possible to keep finding these flaky tests
>>> and fixing them one by one...
>>>> 
>>>> i haven’t gotten a huge amount of feedback overall and i really want to
>>> hear it! ultimately this work is driven by the desire to 1) have *all* our
>>> tests run on *every* commit; 2) be able to trust the results; 3) make our
>>> testing story so amazing that even the most casual weekend warrior who
>>> wants to work on the project can (and will want to!) use it.
>>>> 
>>>> i’m *not* a python guy (although lucky i know and work with many who
>>> are). thankfully i’ve been able to defer to them for much of this largely
>>> python based effort.... i’m sure there are a few more people working on the
>>> project who do consider themselves python experts and i’d especially
>>> appreciate your feedback!
>>>> 
>>>> finally, a lot of my effort was focused around improving the end users
>>> experience (getting bootstrapped, running the tests, improving the
>>> debugability story, etc). i’d really appreciate it if people could try
>>> running the pytest branch and following the install instructions to figure
>>> out what could be improved on. any existing behavior i’ve inadvertently now
>>> removed that’s going to make someone’s life miserable? 😅
>>>> 
>>>> thanks! looking forward to hearing any and all feedback from the
>>> community!
>>>> 
>>>> best,
>>>> kjellman
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 3, 2018, at 8:08 AM, Michael Kjellman <
>>> mkjell...@internalcircle.com<mailto:mkjell...@internalcircle.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> no, i’m not. i just figured i should target python 3.6 if i was doing
>>> this work in the first place. the current Ubuntu LTS was pulling in a
>>> pretty old version. any concerns with using 3.6?
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 3, 2018, at 1:51 AM, Stefan Podkowinski <s...@apache.org<mailto:
>>> s...@apache.org>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The latest updates to your branch fixed the logging issue, thanks! Tests
>>>> now seem to execute fine locally using pytest.
>>>> 
>>>> I was looking at the dockerfile and noticed that you explicitly use
>>>> python 3.6 there. Are you aware of any issues with older python3
>>>> versions, e.g. 3.5? Do I have to use 3.6 as well locally and do we have
>>>> to do the same for jenkins?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 02.01.2018 22:42, Michael Kjellman wrote:
>>>> I reproduced the NOTSET log issue locally... got a fix.. i'll push a
>>> commit up in a moment.
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 2, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Michael Kjellman <
>>> mkjell...@internalcircle.com<mailto:mkjell...@internalcircle.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Comments Inline: Thanks for giving this a go!!
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 2, 2018, at 6:10 AM, Stefan Podkowinski <s...@apache.org<mailto:
>>> s...@apache.org>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I was giving this a try today with some mixed results. First of all,
>>>> running pytest locally would fail with an "ccmlib.common.ArgumentError:
>>>> Unknown log level NOTSET" error for each test. Although I created a new
>>>> virtualenv for that as described in the readme (thanks for updating!)
>>>> and use both of your dtest and cassandra branches. But I haven't patched
>>>> ccm as described in the ticket, maybe that's why? Can you publish a
>>>> patched ccm branch to gh?
>>>> 
>>>> 99% sure this is an issue parsing the logging level passed to pytest to
>>> the python logger... could you paste the exact command you're using to
>>> invoke pytest? should be a small change - i'm sure i just missed a
>>> invocation case.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The updated circle.yml is now using docker, which seems to be a good
>>>> idea to reduce clutter in the yaml file and gives us more control over
>>>> the test environment. Can you add the Dockerfile to the .circleci
>>>> directory as well? I couldn't find it when I was trying to solve the
>>>> pytest error mentioned above.
>>>> 
>>>> This is already tracked in a separate repo:
>>> https://github.com/mkjellman/cassandra-test-docker/blob/master/Dockerfile
>>>> 
>>>> Next thing I did was to push your trunk_circle branch to my gh repo to
>>>> start a circleCI run. Finishing all dtests in 15 minutes sounds
>>>> exciting, but requires a paid tier plan to get that kind of
>>>> parallelization. Looks like the dtests have even been deliberately
>>>> disabled for non-paid accounts, so I couldn't test this any further.
>>>> 
>>>> the plan of action (i already already mentioned this in previous emails)
>>> is to get dtests working for the free circieci oss accounts as well. part
>>> of this work (already included in this pytest effort) is to have fixtures
>>> that look at the system resources and dynamically include tests as possible.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Running dtests from the pytest branch on builds.apache.org<http://
>>> builds.apache.org> did not work
>>>> either. At least the run_dtests.py arguments will need to be updated in
>>>> cassandra-builds. We currently only use a single cassandra-dtest.sh
>>>> script for all builds. Maybe we should create a new job template that
>>>> would use an updated script with the wip-pytest dtest branch, to make
>>>> this work and testable in parallel.
>>>> 
>>>> yes, i didn't touch cassandra-builds yet.. focused on getting circleci
>>> and local runs working first... once we're happy with that and stable we
>>> can make the changes to jenkins configs pretty easily...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 21.12.2017 11:13, Michael Kjellman wrote:
>>>> I just created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14134
>>> which includes tons of details (and a patch available for review) with my
>>> efforts to migrate dtests from nosetest to pytest (which ultimately ended
>>> up also including porting the ode from python 2.7 to python 3).
>>>> 
>>>> I'd love if people could pitch in in any way to help get this reviewed
>>> and committed so we can reduce the natural drift that will occur with a
>>> huge patch like this against the changes going into master. I apologize for
>>> sending this so close to the holidays, but I really have been working
>>> non-stop trying to get things into a completed and stable state.
>>>> 
>>>> The latest CircleCI runs I did took roughly 15 minutes to run all the
>>> dtests with only 6 failures remaining (when run with vnodes) and 12
>>> failures remaining (when run without vnodes). For comparison the last ASF
>>> Jenkins Dtest job to successfully complete took nearly 10 hours (9:51) and
>>> we had 36 test failures. Of note, while I was working on this and trying to
>>> determine a baseline for the existing tests I found that the ASF Jenkins
>>> jobs were incorrectly configured due to a typo. The no-vnodes job is
>>> actually running with vnodes (meaning the no-vnodes job is identical to the
>>> with-vnodes ASF Jenkins job). There are some bootstrap tests that will 100%
>>> reliably hang both nosetest and pytest on test cleanup, however this test
>>> only runs in the no-vnodes configuration. I've debugged and fixed a lot of
>>> these cases across many test cases over the past few weeks and I no longer
>>> know of any tests that can hang CI.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks and I'm optimistic about making testing great for the project and
>>> most importantly for the OSS C* community!
>>>> 
>>>> best,
>>>> kjellman
>>>> 
>>>> Some highlights that I quickly thought of (in no particular order):
>>> {also included in the JIRA}
>>>> -Migrate dtests from executing using the nosetest framework to pytest
>>>> -Port the entire code base from Python 2.7 to Python 3.6
>>>> -Update run_dtests.py to work with pytest
>>>> -Add --dtest-print-tests-only option to run_dtests.py to get easily
>>> parsable list of all available collected tests
>>>> -Update README.md for executing the dtests with pytest
>>>> -Add new debugging tips section to README.md to help with some basics of
>>> debugging python3 and pytest
>>>> -Migrate all existing Enviornment Variable usage as a means to control
>>> dtest operation modes to argparse command line options with documented help
>>> on each toggles intended usage
>>>> -Migration of old unitTest and nose based test structure to modern
>>> pytest fixture approach
>>>> -Automatic detection of physical system resources to automatically
>>> determine if @pytest.mark.resource_intensive annotated tests should be
>>> collected and run on the system where they are being executed
>>>> -new pytest fixture replacements for @since and
>>> @pytest.mark.upgrade_test annotations
>>>> -Migration to python logging framework
>>>> -Upgrade thrift bindings to latest version with full python3
>>> compatibility
>>>> -Remove deprecated cql and pycassa dependencies and migrate any
>>> remaining tests to fully remove those dependencies
>>>> -Fixed dozens of tests that would hang the pytest framework forever when
>>> run in CI enviornments
>>>> -Ran code nearly 300 times in CircleCI during the migration and to find,
>>> identify, and fix any tests capable of hanging CI
>>>> -Upgrade Tests do not yet run in CI and still need additional migration
>>> work (although all upgrade test classes compile successfully)
>>>> 
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