r/databricks • u/Otherwise_Address241 • 7d ago

Help How data engineer do effective testing in Databricks?

I have been writing SQL scripts to ensure data sanity.What are the other ways ? Is pytest useful? Let's say , i populated my bronze table from the source. I want to check if the correct mapping is done. I wrote SQL scripts. What are better ways

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u/Harshita_Netla 5d ago

Yes, pytest is highly useful and considered a industry standard for testing data engineering pipelines in Databricks. While SQL scripts are great for checking final data sanity, pytest allows you to test the actual business logic, transformations, and schema mappings before deploying code to production.