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what’s the best way to call a task within a prefect flow (for integration tests)?
```flow.&lt;method name&gt;(&lt;method arguments&gt;)```
doesn’t work, so i assume we’d need to grab the task from `flow.tasks` and then run the task object.

so my follow up question would be, what is the best way to retrieve a task by name from a `Flow` object?

Have you seen <https://docs.prefect.io/core/idioms/testing-flows.html#testing-flow-composition|this> page though?

Like this maybe?
```from prefect import Flow, task

@task
def abc(x):
    return x

@task
def bcd(x):
    return x

with Flow("..") as flow:
    a = abc(1)
    b = bcd(1)

print(flow.tasks)
print(list(flow.tasks)[0].name)```
And then find the one with the name you want? But I think you can just test the task directly?

hmm, i know the name of the task i want to test but i don’t know how to test running that task specifically. i guess i can just import the task directly and run it? if you have
```@task
def abc(x):
    return x```
and you import `from myflow import abc` then is that a task object or just a method?