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Create unit tests and run tests in CI/CD pipeline

You can create a tests folder in your project folder and put unit tests in this folder. In your CI/CD pipeline, you can cd into the project’s folder and run the following command to run unit tests.

Example unit tests

End-to-end test for a pipeline:

Test environment

When running unit tests, the env variable’s value in the method’s kwargs is test. You can leverage this variable to change the code logic or config used in the unit tests.

Mocking IO libraries

When writing unit tests, you may need to mock the IO libraries to verify that the pipeline is being executed properly without actually calling the database or warehouse directly. If you are using the provided Mage IO libraries, you can mock the libraries in the following way:
In the above example, we are mocking the BigQuery IO class in the data loader, and the Postgres IO class in the data exporter.