carlossardo / data-factory-testing-framework

A stand-alone test framework that allows to write unit tests for Data Factory pipelines on Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory.

Data Factory - Testing Framework

A stand-alone test framework that allows to write unit tests for Data Factory pipelines on Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory.

Features

The framework evaluates pipeline and activity definitions which can be asserted. It does so by providing the following features:

1. Evaluate expressions by using the framework's internal expression parser. It supports all the functions and arguments that are available in the Data Factory expression language.
2. Test an activity with a specific state and assert the evaluated expressions.
3. Test a pipeline run by verifying the execution flow of activities for specific input parameters and assert the evaluated expressions of each activity.

The framework does not support running the actual pipeline. It only gives you the ability to test the pipeline and activity definitions.

High-level example

Given a WebActivity with a typeProperties.url property containing the following expression:

@concat(pipeline().globalParameters.BaseUrl, variables('Path'))

A simple test to validate that the concatenation is working as expected could look like this:

    # Arrange
    activity = pipeline.get_activity_by_name("webactivity_name")
    state = PipelineRunState(
        parameters=[
            RunParameter(RunParameterType.Global, "BaseUrl", "https://example.com"),
        ],
        variables=[
            PipelineRunVariable("Path", "some-path"),
        ])

    # Act
    activity.evaluate(state)

    # Assert
    assert "https://example.com/some-path" == activity.type_properties["url"].result

Why

Data Factory does not support unit testing, nor testing of pipelines locally. Having integration and e2e tests running on an actual Data Factory instance is great, but having unit tests on top of them provides additional means of quick iteration, validation and regression testing. Unit testing with the Data Factory Testing Framework has the following benefits:

• Runs locally with immediate feedback
• Easier to cover a lot of different scenarios and edge cases
• Regression testing

Concepts

The following pages go deeper into different topics and concepts of the framework to help in getting you started.

Basic

1. Repository setup
2. Installing and initializing the framework
3. State
4. Activity testing
5. Pipeline testing

If you are a not that experienced with Python, you can follow the Getting started guide to get started with the framework.

Advanced

1. Debugging your activities and pipelines
2. Development workflow
3. Overriding expression functions
4. Framework internals

Examples

More advanced examples demonstrating the capabilities of the framework:

Fabric:

1. Batch job example

Azure Data Factory:

1. Copy blobs example
2. Batch job example

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.

Disclaimer

This unit test framework is not officially supported. It is currently in an experimental state and has not been tested with every single data factory resource. It should support all activities out-of-the-box but has not been thoroughly tested, please report any issues in the issues section and include an example of the pipeline that is not working as expected.

If there's a lot of interest in this framework, then we will continue to improve it and move it to a production-ready state.

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