[jira] [Commented] (ACCUMULO-2608) Create a randomwalk replay meta-node

["Bill Havanki (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Bill Havanki commented on ACCUMULO-2608:
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All good thoughts, thanks for them. At least for this go-round, I'd be happy with just something minimal, so addressing some of this points may need to wait. In the meantime, some thoughts I have from working on this:

* A recorded run takes the form of a straight-line graph. If a node in the original graph is visited 100 times, it is represented 100 times in the recorded graph, each time with a different ID.
* There may be some cases where the recorded test run does not have enough information to reproduce a bug. Keith's example of the shard test generating random documents is probably one of them. In this first attempt, I'm (so far) recording not only each node that is visited but also the state after the visit. So, it's conceivable that a test could be updated to store information in state (like a random seed) that would enable a replay to run in the same way. This might not work for some tests, of course.
* Rather than attempting the complex-yet-cool task of pruning cycles from a graph, it would be easier to checkpoint enough information in the recording, like state, so that a run could be kicked off from some point just before a bug expresses itself, and the run would start with the same conditions as the original run at that point. It could be an extension to the current XML.
* The recording mechanism definitely has to cope with memory limitations. A more naïve approach could toss out old the oldest part of the run, while something more sophisticated could periodically dump the recording to disk ... like a tablet. :)

> Create a randomwalk replay meta-node
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>                 Key: ACCUMULO-2608
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2608
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: test
>            Reporter: Mike Drob
>            Assignee: Bill Havanki
>            Priority: Trivial
>             Fix For: 1.5.2, 1.6.1, 1.7.0
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> It would be useful to have the ability to replay randomwalk sequences.
> If a randomwalk fails, it is often difficult to reproduce due to the random nature of things. If current test runs were modified to output a specially crafted module representing their sequence, then future runs could accept it as the module to run and improve reproduction capabilities.



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