[HBASE-2578] Add ability for tests to override server-side timestamp setting (currentTimeMillis)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.90.0
• Assignee: Daniel Ploeg
• Reporter: Jonathan Gray
• Created: 20/May/10 00:01
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 12:40
• Resolved: 07/Jun/10 23:15

Description

Many of our tests use client APIs which do not set explicit stamps. This creates weird timing issues with tests running on different systems because sometimes a set of operations happens in the same millisecond and other times they do not.

We should have a way for a test to specify it's own way of generating the timestamps (for example, could always increment by 1 ensuring forward progression in time).