Re: Hadoop exercises

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Kerzner
Again, I agree. It's not even for lazy ones, it is required! The lazy one was I for not including this before. That's fixed now . Thank you, Mark On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Bill Graham wrote: > For the

Re: Hadoop exercises

2011-01-05 Thread Bill Graham
For the even lazier, you could give both the test data and the expected output data. That way they know for sure if they got it right. This also promotes a good testing best practice, which is to assert against and expected set of results. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Mark Kerzner wrote: > Th

Re: Hadoop exercises

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Kerzner
Thank you, Harsh, for the suggestion. It also gave me an idea to add one more exercise, "generate test data" - which is helpful in its own right, since it brings out the idea of Hadoop testing philosophy: think of large tests. Mark On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Harsh J wrote: > Providing a d

Re: Hadoop exercises

2011-01-05 Thread Harsh J
Providing a data sample after describing it would be good for the yet-lazy. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Mark Kerzner wrote: > Hi, > > what would you think of these > exercisesfor > the Hadoop intro chapter?

Hadoop exercises

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Kerzner
Hi, what would you think of these exercisesfor the Hadoop intro chapter? Thank you, Mark