Testing Spark Applications
Testing Spark Applications
Writing Spark code is hard... well designed, performant Spark tests are even harder. You need a robust test suite to identify performance bottlenecks in your code and refactor with ease. This book teaches you how to write a beautiful test suite and how to run the tests whenever code is pushed to the master branch.
About the Book
The book discusses Scala testing basics with the Scalatest framework. It uses the spark-fast-tests library to demonstrate column equality testing and DataFrame equality testing. Spark tests can run slowly so the book provides several practical workflows to keep tests running quickly. Spark code frequently reads and writes to disk and the book covers how to write tests for code with I/O. Configuring a test suite properly can make it around 70% faster and this book explains the configuration options you should have on your radar. Complex transformations (e.g. aggregations) and column types (e.g. MapType, ArrayType, StructType, BinaryType) have special testing considerations that are addressed in separate chapters.
This book has a heavy emphasis on software engineering best practices and will teach you skills that are useful for any language or framework.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Messy data
- Nightmare deploys
- Empower refactoring
- Tests encourage code that doesn’t have side effects
- Identifying code bottlenecks
- Test suites document behavior
- Technologies used
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Testing Scala with Scalatest
- Writing a simple test
- Directory organization
- build.sbt
- More tests
- Running tests and configuring output
- assertThrows
- assertDoesNotCompile
- Other assertions
- Other test formats
- Test library alternatives
- Testing Spark applications
- Next steps
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Column Equality Tests
- Custom DataFrame Transformation Refresher
- Spark project setup
- assertColumnEquality with spark-fast-tests
- Conclusion
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Quieting Test Output
- Customizing test suite output
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Creating DataFrames for Tests
- toDF
- createDataFrame
- createDF
- Including spark-daria in your projects
- Next steps
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DataFrame Equality Tests
- Simple example
- assertSmallDataFrameEquality error messages
- Next steps
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Running Tests
- Running from the SBT console
- Running a single test file
- Running a single test
- Best workflow
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Approximate Equality
- Difference between double, float and decimal
- When assertColumnEquality falls short
- assertFloatTypeColumnEquality to the rescue
- assertApproximateDataFrameEquality
- Conclusion
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Testing User Defined Functions
- Creating a UDF
- Testing a UDF
- Check the UDF fails with null input
- The billion dollar mistake
- Verifying test failure in the test suite
- Next steps
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Testing Spark Column Functions
- Simple example
- How Spark functions handle null
- Important takeaway
- Why print DataFrames from the test suite?
- Next steps
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Testing Filesystem Reads
- Untestable code
- Setting the path as a param
- Testing with the config pattern
- Elegant testing with dependency injection
- Abstracting custom transformation to a separate function
- Next steps
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Testing Filesystem Writes
- Simple example
- Rude tests leave garbage behind
- Performance considerations
- Next steps
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Identifying Bottlenecks
- Let’s find the bottleneck
- Benchmarking individual transformations
- Contrived but representative
- Conclusion
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Organizing Tests
- Some pure Scala
- Poorly organized Spark tests
- Test suite rules to follow
- Good Spark test organization
- Tests should be descriptive and document behavior
- Quantifying performance difference
- Next steps
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Test Suite Configuration
- Shuffle partitions
- javaOptions
- Conclusion
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Testing Aggregations
- groupBy refresher
- groupBy with two columns
- groupBy with filters
- Conclusions
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