Hi Hadoop-dev, Long time ago, Hadoop community decided to put Powermock on hold for unit tests. Both mockito and powermock has evolved a lot in the past 5 years. There are mature versions of both software, and there are compatibility charts to indicate which versions can work together. Hadoop has grown a lot in the last 5 years. It becomes apparent that without ability to instrument lower level classes to contain unit test scope. Many tests are written to simulate integration test in order to perform unit tests. The result is slow performance on unit tests, and some parts are not testable strictly in unit test case. This discussion is to revisit the decision, and see if we would embrace Powermock and allow HADOOP-9122 to be implemented. Feel free to comment on HADOOP-9122 and this thread to revisit this issue.
Thank you for your time. Regards, Eric
