[HBASE-2414] Enhance test suite to be able to specify distributed scenarios

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.90.0
• Component/s: test
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Michael Stack
• Reporter: Karthik Ranganathan
• Created: 07/Apr/10 00:44
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 12:42
• Resolved: 30/Apr/10 06:55

Description

We keep finding good cases that are reasonably hard to test, yet the test suite does not encode these.
For example:
HBASE-2413 Master does not respect generation stamps, may result in meta getting permanently offlined
HBASE-2312 Possible data loss when RS goes into GC pause while rolling HLog

I am sure there are many more such "scenarios" we should put into the unit tests.