Major Description
Original discussion present here:http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-accumulo-dev/201110.mbox/%3CCAGUtCHrN3p-7C8Uz7eT0Ze4L0ORzDj1f-x-JWdyrLc=Kx=o8ZQ@mail.gmail.com%3E
Jesse Yates: "Maintaining a real instance and a mock instance ends up creating a lot of extra work for dev's by ensuring that there impls are kept synchronized....[using a real] instance of Accumulo running on the local file system. This would mean less work in the long run to maintain a separate instance and better testing for users and new features."
Keith Turner: "its very fast to create a mock instance which means that unit test run very quickly...[and] its all in process which is useful for debugging...making mock leverage more of the actual accumulo code, but possibly keep it in process for speed and debugging."
This ticket is to track the discussion and development of a less mocked test instance of accumulo, that relies more heavily on the actual implementation, rather than parallel mocking features.