Show HN: Why Don't Data Engineers Write Tests?

4 points by jpgerek 2 days ago

I asked this same question last week in the r/dataengineering subreddit and got some interesting answers:

- Unit/Integration testing is often dropped because of tight deadlines and low perceived business impact.

- It helps, but they're not a full solution for data quality.

- Many Data Engineers don't have a Software Engineering background, so common practices like testing often aren't applied.

- Creating multiple input/output tables with realistic synthetic data is complicated.

- Tooling and frameworks for testing data transformations are still pretty limited.

I'd like to hear Hacker News's perspective on this.

I also built an open-source toolkit/framework called Pybujia to help with some of these pains: https://github.com/jpgerek/pybujia/