[HADOOP-6725] Evaluate HtmlUnit for unit and regression testing webpages

• Type: Test
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: test
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jakob Homan
• Created: 26/Apr/10 04:25
• Updated: 27/May/10 03:18

Description

HtmlUnit (http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/) looks like it may be a good tool to help unit testing and evaluating our various webpages throughout the project. Currently this is done only occasionally in the code (usually falls to being a manual test during release cycles), and when it is done, usually the code to parse the webpage, etc. is re-written each time. The framework is Apache licensed, so including it won't be an issue. If it's found to be useful, new JIRAs for HDFS and MR should be opened.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HDFS-1177 Ivy2.0 has bugs: let's upgrate to 2.1.0