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Hey prefect, I need to write unit tests for my flows and was wondering if y'all had any guidance or examples of some patterns used internally or by existing customers?

Hey <@U01K9Q5F9SA>, have you seen this <https://docs.prefect.io/core/idioms/testing-flows.html#testing-prefect-flows-and-tasks|link> ?

Hey <@U01QEJ9PP53>, no I have not seen that one yet. Have you ran across any more detailed/more real world examples. I am hitting databases, creating spark jobs, accessing storage, etc.

You posted the same question a while ago right? I feel like I responded, but maybe I forgot. Did I show you Mock connections like <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/1867f205405e1f68b828ce9dcf00bbd4969903bc/tests/tasks/snowflake/test_snowflake.py#L49-L78|this>  ?

This is the unit test for the SnowFlake task. I guess you should just check the unit tests of the task library for inspiration

No, this is the first time I have asked about testing in any sort of depth

Oh ok we had the same question and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t repeating the same answer cuz that would be useless lol

Ok, let me dive deeper into what you sent