[BIGTOP-996] Document steps needed to run BT tests on a fresh host

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: jay vyas
• Reporter: Konstantin I Boudnik
• Created: 06/Jun/13 01:57
• Updated: 20/May/14 03:03
• Resolved: 20/May/14 03:03

Description

I argue that a major part of becoming a contributor for Bigtop is a learning curve in how to use all the mechanics of the trade. I see this times and again.

We need to have a HOWTO.txt document that would have a trivial description of the needed steps. Something like:

sudo jenkins
clone Bigtop repo
mvn install top pom.xml
mvn install itest
set HADOOP_CONF_DIR, HADOOP_HOME, HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME
mvn install test-artifacts top pom.xml
mvn install test-execution top pom.xml
mvn -Dorg.apache.bigtop.itest.log4j.level=TRACE -f bigtop-tests/test-execution/smokes/hadoop/pom.xml verify

That might be sufficient.