[CASSANDRA-9163] Randomized subsystem correctness testing

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Legacy/Testing
• Labels: retrospective_generated
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Benedict Elliott Smith
• Created: 10/Apr/15 11:56
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31

Description

Whilst we are aiming to introduce a test harness that will be validated by stress and test non-conflicting subsystem interactions, many bugs could be caught with isolated randomized testing of a given component, or pair of components, and more complex and rigorous testing is possible since in this case we do expect the subsystems to interact with each other, and by isolating the components we can test more iterations more rapidly. Subsystems that would certainly benefit: commitlog/memtables, cqlsstablewriter(s), gossip...

This is catch-all placeholder ticket to bridge CASSANDRA-9042 with specific tickets for each subsystem

Issue Links

• contains: CASSANDRA-9164 Randomized correctness testing of CQLSSTableWriter (and friends)
• Is contained by: CASSANDRA-9012 Triage missing test coverage
• Is contained by: CASSANDRA-9042 Make trunk always releasable
• relates to: CASSANDRA-9162 Randomized correctness testing for commit log subsystem, and memtable interaction