Unit testing Dev Blog post #5461
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This is looking strong - thank you for getting this together Doug! One comment on some funky naming was my main flag for the content in this blog.
This does a good job of getting across the process of writing a unit test. Something I'd be keen for us to explore more in the near future is the process of building unit tests for your project. How and where should we be putting them in the project? What's the right number to include or the ways to think about integrating them.
That can come in a later post - this is very great and a natural starting place for our communications around unit testing.
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Something about this command doesn't sit right - wondering if we should give a more realistic model name
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What are you changing in this pull request and why?
dbt version 1.8 includes a built-in unit testing framework to extend the capabilities of software engineering best practices for analytics engineers. This blog post gives an introduction to using unit tests to build trusted data sets.
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