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Michael Brown 22669e23be IMPALA-3501: ee tests: detect build type and support different timeouts based on the same
Impala compiled with the address sanitizer, or compiled with code
coverage, runs through code paths much slower. This can cause end-to-end
tests that pass on a non-ASAN or non-code coverage build to fail. Some
examples include IMPALA-2721, IMPALA-2973, and IMPALA-3501. These
classes of failures tend always to involve some time-sensitive condition
that fails to succeed under such "slow builds".

The works-around in the past have been to simply increase the timeout.
The problem with this approach is that it relaxes conditions for tests
on builds that see the field--i.e., release builds--for builds that
never will--i.e., ASAN and code coverage.

This patch fixes that problem by allowing test authors to set timeout
values based on a *specific* build type. The author may choose timeouts
with a default value, and different timeouts for either or both
so-called "slow builds": ASAN and code coverage.

We detect the so-called "specific build type" by inspecting the binary
expected to be at the path under test. This removes the need to make
alterations to Impala itself. The inspection done is to read the DWARF
information in the binary, specifically the first compile unit's
DW_AT_producer and DW_AT_name DIE attributes. We employ a heuristic
based on these attributes' values to guess the build type. If we can't
determine the build type, we will assume it's a debug build. More
information on this is in IMPALA-3501.

A quick summary of the changes follows:

1. Move some of the logic in tests.common.skip to tests.common.environ
   and rework some skip marks to be more precise.

2. Add Pyelftools for convenient deserialization of DWARF

3. Our Pyelftools usage requires collections.OrderedDict, which isn't in
   python2.6; also add Monkeypatch to handle this.

4. Add ImpalaBuild and specific_build_type_timeout, the core of the new
   functionality

5. Fix the statestore tests that only fail under code coverage (the
   basis for IMPALA-3501)

Testing:

The tests that were previously, reliably failing under code coverage now
pass. I also ran perfunctory tests of debug, release, and ASAN builds to
ensure our detection of build type is working. This patch will *not*
turn the code coverage builds green; there are other tests that fail,
and fixing all of them here is out of the scope of this patch.

Change-Id: I2b675c04c54e36d404fd9e5a6cf085fb8d6d0e47
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/3156
Reviewed-by: Michael Brown <mikeb@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Internal Jenkins
2016-05-25 19:41:45 -07:00
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