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  1. Using Distributional
  2. Testing
  3. Creating Tests

Test Templates

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Test templates are macros for basic test patterns recommended by Distributional. It allows the user to quickly create tests from a builder in the UI. Distributional provides five classes of Test Templates.

  • : These are parametric statistics of a column.

  • : These test if the absolute difference of a statistic of a column between two runs is less than a threshold.

  • : These test if the column from two different runs are similarly distributed is using a nonparametric statistic.

  • : These are tests on the row-wise absolute difference of result

  • : These tests the signed difference of a statistic of a column between two runs

Creating Test from Test Templates

From the Test Configuration page, click the Test Template dropdown under My Tests.

Select from one of the five options and click ADD TEST. A Test Creation drawer will appear and the user can edit the statistic, column, and assertion that they desire. Note that each Test Template has a limited set of statistics that it supports.

Single Run
Similarity of Statistics
Similarity of Distributions
Similarity of Results
Difference of Statistics
Dropdown selector
Test Creation Drawer