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Dario Mirovic f1d63d014c test: dtest: schema_management_test.py: speed up TestLargePartitionAlterSchema tests
The tests in `TestLargePartitionAlterSchema` are `test_large_partition_with_add_column`
and `test_large_partition_with_drop_column`.

These tests need to replicate the following conditions that led to a bug before a fix from around 5 years ago.

The scenario in which the problem could have happened has to involve:
- a large partition with many rows, large enough for preemption (every 0.5ms) to happen during the scan of the partition.
- appending writes to the partition (not overwrites)
- scans of the partition
- schema alter of that table. The issue is exposed only by adding or dropping a column, such that the added/dropped
  column lands in the middle (in alphabetical order) of the old column set.

The way the test is set up is:
- fixed number of writes per populate call
- fixed number of reads

This has the following implications:
- if the machine executing the test is fast, all the writes are done before the 10 seconds sleep
- there are too many reads - most of them get executed after the test logic is done

This patch solves these issues in the following way:
- populate lazily generates write data, and stops when instructed by `stop_populating` event
- read, which is done sequentially, stops when instructed by `stop_reading` event
- number of max operations is increased significantly, but the operations are stopped 1 second
  after node flush; this makes sure there are enough operations during the test, but also that
  the test does not take unnecessary time

Test execution time has been reduced severalfold. On dev machine the time the tests take is
reduced from 110 seconds to 34 seconds.

The patch also introduces a few small improvements:
- `cs_run` renamed to `run_stress` for clarity
- Stopped checking if cluster is `ScyllaCluster`, since it is the only one we use
- `case_map` removed from `test_alter_table_in_parallel_to_read_and_write`, used `mixed` param directly
- Added explanation comment on why we do `data[i].append(None)`
- Replaced `alter_table` inner function with its body, for simplicity
- Removed unnecessary `ck_rows` variable in `populate`
- Removed unnecessary `isinstance(self.cluster. ScyllaCluster)`
- Adjusted `ThreadPoolExecutor` size in several places where 5 workers are not needed
- Replaced functional programming style expressions for `new_versions` and `columns_list` with
  comprehension/generator statement python style code, improving readability

Refs #26932

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2025-12-18 17:07:27 +01:00
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Scylla in-source tests.

For details on how to run the tests, see docs/dev/testing.md

Shared C++ utils, libraries are in lib/, for Python - pylib/

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If you can use an existing folder, consider adding your test to it. New folders should be used for new large categories/subsystems, or when the test environment is significantly different from some existing suite, e.g. you plan to start scylladb with different configuration, and you intend to add many tests and would like them to reuse an existing Scylla cluster (clusters can be reused for tests within the same folder).

To add a new folder, create a new directory, and then copy & edit its suite.ini.