Accumulo Summit 2016: Effective Testing of Apache Accumulo Iterators
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This document discusses testing approaches for Apache Accumulo iterators. It recommends using a combination of unit tests, an iterator testing harness, and MiniAccumuloCluster testing to thoroughly test iterators at different stages of the development lifecycle. The iterator testing harness is designed to catch common mistakes and validate iterators meet best practices. Together, these testing approaches aim to find errors faster, improve iterator quality and reusability, and increase confidence for deploying iterators.
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Apache Accumulo Iterators
à Column Slices (CfCqSliceFilter)
à Basic Statistics (StatsCombiner)
à Value/Array Concatenation (Summing[Array]Combiner)
à Aggregations (WholeRowIterator, WholeColumnFamilyIterator)
à In-Row operations (AndIterator, OrIterator)
à Filters (RegExFilter, GrepIterator, FirstEntryInRowIterator)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/effectivetestingofapacheaccumuloiterators-161012214428/85/Accumulo-Summit-2016-Effective-Testing-of-Apache-Accumulo-Iterators-4-320.jpg)
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Iterator Testing Harness
à Testing an Iterator requires three things
– Input data
– Expected output
– Collection of test cases to run
à Test cases found via reflection
– Common edge cases provided
– Easy to develop and run new test cases
à JUnit4 integration
@Parameters
public static Object[][] data() {
IteratorTestInput input = createIteratorInput();
IteratorTestOutput expectedOutput = createIteratorOuput();
List<IteratorTestCase> testCases = createTestCases();
return BaseJUnit4IteratorTest.createParameters(input,
expectedOutput, testCases);
}](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/effectivetestingofapacheaccumuloiterators-161012214428/85/Accumulo-Summit-2016-Effective-Testing-of-Apache-Accumulo-Iterators-13-320.jpg)
Accumulo Summit 2016: Effective Testing of Apache Accumulo Iterators
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- 3. 3 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved A Novel Feature of Apache Accumulo à SortedKeyValueIterator (SKVI or “Iterators”) à Computation offload à Reduced I/O à Rumored to be called “cool” by Jeff Dean Transformations Server-Side Predicate-Pushdown Filters Aggregations Combiners Versioning Security
- 4. 4 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Apache Accumulo Iterators à Column Slices (CfCqSliceFilter) à Basic Statistics (StatsCombiner) à Value/Array Concatenation (Summing[Array]Combiner) à Aggregations (WholeRowIterator, WholeColumnFamilyIterator) à In-Row operations (AndIterator, OrIterator) à Filters (RegExFilter, GrepIterator, FirstEntryInRowIterator)
- 5. 5 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Reads à Clients request a Range of data à Key to Row to Tablet to TabletServer à Sorted, merged-read of memory and files à Computation offload and RPC boost Tablet Memory RFile RFile RFile RFile RFile Client Iterators
- 6. 6 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Reads with Iterators à A poor-man’s “VIEW” à Server-side transformation at query-time Raw Key Value Transformed Key Value 3141592 siblings:brothers Bobby,Steven 3141592 siblings:count 4 3141592 siblings:sisters Sally,Francine 3141593 siblings:brothers Frank 3141593 siblings:count 3 3141593 siblings:sisters Amy,Loretta 3141594 siblings:brothers 3141594 siblings:count 2 3141594 siblings:sisters Rebecca,Savannah
- 7. 7 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Compactions à Bounds number of files and performance à Iterators provide data optimization mechanism Tablet RFile RFile RFile RFile RFile RFile RFile Before After Iterators
- 8. 8 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Compactions with Iterators à Deferred aggregation à Rewrite application data in optimal form Raw Key Value Transformed Key Value 3141592 siblings:brothers Bobby,Steven 3141592 siblings:brothers … 3141592 siblings:count 4 3141592 siblings:sisters Sally,Francine 3141592 siblings:sisters … 3141593 siblings:brothers Frank 3141593 siblings:brothers … 3141593 siblings:count 3 3141593 siblings:sisters Amy,Loretta 3141593 siblings:sisters … 3141594 siblings:brothers 3141594 siblings:brothers … 3141594 siblings:counts 2 3141594 siblings:sisters Rebecca,Savannah 3141594 siblings:sisters …
- 9. 9 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Better for Everyone à Iterators are great – Abstraction for system-level filters and optimizations – Better performance for power-users à Lots of things Iterators are not – Triggers – Hooks – Coprocessors – “Hammers” à Iterators do not generally replace – Flink, Hive, Mesos, Presto, Storm, Spark, YARN, etc – Can in some cases
- 10. 10 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved On Building an Iterator à The API is not particularly intuitive à Hard to create/support SKVIv2 à Edge-cases in production are hard to understand à Lots of things to not do in an Iterator – Trial and error à Difficult insight in production systems
- 11. 11 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved à Good – Fast – Concise/Simple – Given input, verify output à Bad – Not end-to-end – Not representative invocation Unit Testing à Good – Same server execution as production – Same client interaction as production à Bad – Slow/Memory intensive – Pedantic to write tests – Might not catch production edge-cases – Impacted by environment MiniAccumuloCluster (MAC) Testing Existing Testing Tools What’s the happy medium?
- 12. 12 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Iterator Testing Harness à Testing harness designed to capture common pitfalls – ACCUMULO-626 in >=1.8.0 à Complementary à The good parts – Fast – Generalized/Reusable tests – Extensible à The bad parts – Not directly using TabletServer for invocation – Subtle failures
- 13. 13 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Iterator Testing Harness à Testing an Iterator requires three things – Input data – Expected output – Collection of test cases to run à Test cases found via reflection – Common edge cases provided – Easy to develop and run new test cases à JUnit4 integration @Parameters public static Object[][] data() { IteratorTestInput input = createIteratorInput(); IteratorTestOutput expectedOutput = createIteratorOuput(); List<IteratorTestCase> testCases = createTestCases(); return BaseJUnit4IteratorTest.createParameters(input, expectedOutput, testCases); }
- 14. 14 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Example Test Cases à Iterator Instantiation – Does the Iterator have a visibile no-args constructor? à ”DeepCopy” safety – Can a “deepCopy()” of an Iterator be used like the original? à Stateless “hasTop()” – Do multiple invocations of “hasTop()” cause incorrect results/errors? à Re-seek()’ing – Accumulo will re-instantiate scan sessions and use new Ranges – Does the Iterator still return correct results in this case?
- 15. 15 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved In an Ideal World à Good testing means faster deployments à Faster deployment means more value for customers à Automated tests combats technical debt in code growth à More automation reduces developer stress Unit Tests MiniAccumuloCluster Iterator Testing Harness+ + =
- 16. 16 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved In an Ideal World à Unit Tests (test lifecycle phase) – Fast verification given input/output – Validate impact of state à Iterator Testing Harness (test lifecycle phase) – Catch common-mistakes – Basic lifetime/API validation – Encourage best-practices à MiniAccumuloCluster(integration-test lifecycle phase) – Functional/Acceptance tests – Does the ingest/query system function – Real execution of Iterator by TabletServer A Trio of Testing Approaches
- 17. 17 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved à Standalone environment – The ”laptop test” – Sanity check à Staging environments – Small cluster with a subset of data – Correctness and performance In an Ideal World Code MAC Iterator Test Harness Unit Tests Binary Artifacts Standalone Staging Production Deploy
- 18. 18 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved In an Ideal World à No more ”voodoo” and “black magic” à Find common errors fast à Catch bad Iterator design early à Standardized testing methodology à Community contributes new tests à Increase in quality, reusability, and confidence
- 19. 19 © Hortonworks Inc. 2011 – 2016. All Rights Reserved Thank You Twitter: @josh_elser Email: elserj@apache.org / jelser@hortonworks.com