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We are doing a feasibility study of Lightweight Automation Testing (non GUI) of systems involving of Hadoop/Cassandra/Tera Data.

We tried searching for automation tools support, its big data handling approach.(to no avail). We are planning to built a test framework in Java from scratch. (Java can inter operate with them and we have the skill set in the team)

Has any one come across an automation tool which can test these technologies?

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jagannath, welcome to SQA. It might help to elaborate on what "big data handling approach" means to you. What kind of features does that entail? – user246 Nov 6 '12 at 14:21
Here the approach, i meant is that the tool should be able to handle the data volume, its variety & its interoperability with haddop/cassandra/teradata. FYI the problem domain is "Retail". Please correct me, if i am wrong. – jagannath Nov 6 '12 at 14:43
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Are you talking about unit testing, or some other functional testing of whatever API or UI is on top of that technology? If it is unit testing then looking up how to unit test databases would be a good starting point, there is a lot of info out there, but as far as specific tools for the job, I'm not sure. – Sam Woods Nov 6 '12 at 17:09
It is not Unit testing. It will be Component level testing. Back ground - Complete End to End functionality is not ready. But the individual components with respect to Big data & BI are ready, so would like to test the component Interactions, Data transactions & their correctness. The activity is going to be done by the Test Team. – jagannath Nov 6 '12 at 17:17
I believe there might be experts in testing distributed applications with big data, but not necessary in the technologies you mention. So what is exactly your application doing, how components are interacting with each other? What is TeraData for you? What goals your app must address in the first place? Scalability with respect to concurrent users? Stability/reliability? Responsiveness? Does it depends on external components/infrastructure? – dzieciou Nov 6 '12 at 19:23
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