[MAPREDUCE-4673] make TestRawHistoryFile and TestJobHistoryServer more robust

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0, 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: test
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Fixed TestRawHistoryFile and TestJobHistoryServer to not write to /tmp.
• Assignee: Arpit Gupta
• Reporter: Arpit Gupta
• Created: 21/Sep/12 18:06
• Updated: 17/Oct/12 18:27
• Resolved: 24/Sep/12 19:45

Description

these unit tests fail if 2 different users run them on the same host as they are using /tmp/input path

following is the info from the test log

testcase classname="org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TestJobHistoryServer" name="testHistoryServerStandalone" time="4.572">
    <failure message="/tmp/.input.crc (Permission denied)" type="junit.framework.AssertionFailedError">junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: /tmp/.input.crc (Permission denied)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TestJobHistoryServer.testHistoryServerStandalone(TestJobHistoryServer.java:113)
</failure>