Towards a distributed execution framework for JUnit test cases

Author

Parveen, Tauhida ; Tilley, Scott ; Daley, Nigel ; Morales, Pedro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Florida Inst. of Technol., Melbourne, FL, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

20-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

425

Lastpage

428

Abstract

JUnit is the de-facto framework for creating and executing unit tests. This paper introduces a distributed execution framework for JUnit test cases called HadoopUnit, which is built upon Hadoop: an open-source platform for running applications that process vast amounts of data on large clusters built of commodity hardware. The primary motivation behind developing HadoopUnit was to test Hadoop production code using the Hadoop platform itself: existing approaches to testing the system were taking too long to run to completion, and were unable to provide feedback to the developers in a timely manner. Preliminary results suggest that HadoopUnit can reduce test execution time significantly: a 150-node cluster has produced a 30x improvement. HadoopUnit can be used by anyone for testing an application as long as they have access to a computing cluster with the Hadoop software installed and running.

Keywords

distributed processing; program testing; Hadoop software; HadoopUnit; JUnit test cases; commodity hardware; distributed execution framework; open-source platform; test execution time; Automatic testing; Costs; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Performance evaluation; Software debugging; Software engineering; Software systems; Software testing; System testing; Hadoop; HadoopUnit; JUnit; distributed systems; software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 2009. ICSM 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Edmonton, AB

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4897-5

Electronic_ISBN

1063-6773

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306292

Filename

5306292