[MAPREDUCE-4870] TestMRJobsWithHistoryService causes infinite loop if it fails

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: trunk-win, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: trunk-win
• Component/s: test
• Target Version/s: trunk-win
• Assignee: Chris Nauroth
• Reporter: Chris Nauroth
• Created: 11/Dec/12 17:14
• Updated: 12/May/16 18:23
• Resolved: 28/Dec/12 04:32

Description

TestMRJobsWithHistoryService#testJobHistoryData has a periodic poll and sleep after job execution, checking for the application state to reach RMAppState#FINISHED. If the job fails, then the application could be in a different terminal state, and this polling loop will never terminate.

Issue Links

• is part of: MAPREDUCE-4401 Enhancements to MapReduce for Windows Server and Windows Azure development and runtime environments