"I have no issue with the code changes by themselves, but I wonder if this is the best place for them. IMO, this functionality will not be remembered when it comes time to perform release testing as I think the majority of testing occurs from the accumulo-testing repo. If this is merged, then I would suggest that the release testing section of the website be updated to reference this test and any other standalone-capable ITs.
I did a quick look in the test module, and it looks like the following classes may work in a standalone capacity:
TestIngest
TestMultiTableIngest
VerifyIngest
TestRandomDeletes
These classes aren't tests, but utilities that ITs use."
Originally posted by @dlmarion in #4051 (review)