Hi All, I would like to start a discussion about including the SQLServer Manual tests to the 3rd party test suite. I think this would bring a huge improvement as these tests are currently executed very rarely or even never (as several test cases are failing, DB connection string and credentials are hard coded in the code, etc.) and not bringing too much value. Adding them to the 3rd party test suite would help to keep Sqoop more robust as these could be executed in case of any related code change easily.
However, this would mean that every contributor who wants to run 3rd party tests on their machine should have an SQLServer instance to avoid having bothering failures. Having such instances installed manually for MySQL, Postgres, Oracle and Cubrid is already required for running this test suite. Since Sqoop also supports SQLServer and DB2 I would say that it would be reasonable to create such requirements for having these SQL server instances too in order to execute an extended 3rd part test suite. Please share your thoughts on this topic, every input is welcome. Thanks, Bogi P.s.: Running 3rd party test on the CI making them fully automated is another question raised in another email thread on dev@
