[HBASE-16536] Make the HBase minicluster easy to use for testing downstream applications.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Niels Basjes
• Created: 31/Aug/16 12:29
• Updated: 21/Jul/20 18:11

Description

In many applications I write I use HBase to store information.
A big problem is testing these applications.

I have seen several situations where people have written tests that create tables in the development cluster and due to firewalls and such couldn't run those tests from Jenkins.

A while ago I wrote the FilterTestingCluster class that makes unit testing the client side filters a lot easier. With this ticket I propose to make this more generic and make it so that user applications can easily incorporate it into their own unit tests without any major modifications to their application.