https://towardsdatascience.com/stop-mocking-me-unit-tests-in-pyspark-using-pythons-mock-library-a4b5cd019d7e > Fundamental in software development, and often overlooked by data scientists, but important. In this post, I’ll show how to do unit testing in PySpark using Python’s unittest.mock library. I’ll do this from a data scientist’s perspective- to me that means that I won’t go into the software engineering details. I present just what you need to know. > First, a (semi) relevant clip from Family Guy: