Adding or reusing tests

Overview

This guide will go over:

1. how Feast tests are setup

2. how to extend the test suite to test new functionality

3. how to use the existing test suite to test a new custom offline / online store.

Test suite overview

Let's inspect the test setup in sdk/python/tests/integration:

$ tree

.
├── e2e
│   └── test_universal_e2e.py
├── feature_repos
│   ├── repo_configuration.py
│   └── universal
│       ├── data_source_creator.py
│       ├── data_sources
│       │   ├── bigquery.py
│       │   ├── file.py
│       │   └── redshift.py
│       ├── entities.py
│       └── feature_views.py
├── offline_store
│   ├── test_s3_custom_endpoint.py
│   └── test_universal_historical_retrieval.py
├── online_store
│   ├── test_e2e_local.py
│   ├── test_feature_service_read.py
│   ├── test_online_retrieval.py
│   └── test_universal_online.py
├── registration
│   ├── test_cli.py
│   ├── test_cli_apply_duplicated_featureview_names.py
│   ├── test_cli_chdir.py
│   ├── test_feature_service_apply.py
│   ├── test_feature_store.py
│   ├── test_inference.py
│   ├── test_registry.py
│   ├── test_universal_odfv_feature_inference.py
│   └── test_universal_types.py
└── scaffolding
    ├── test_init.py
    ├── test_partial_apply.py
    ├── test_repo_config.py
    └── test_repo_operations.py

8 directories, 27 files

feature_repos has setup files for most tests in the test suite and pytest fixtures for other tests. These fixtures parametrize on different offline stores, online stores, etc. and thus abstract away store specific implementations so tests don't need to rewrite e.g. uploading dataframes to a specific store for setup.

Understanding an example test

Let's look at a sample test using the universal repo:

@pytest.mark.integration
@pytest.mark.parametrize("full_feature_names", [True, False], ids=lambda v: str(v))
def test_historical_features(environment, universal_data_sources, full_feature_names):
    store = environment.feature_store

    (entities, datasets, data_sources) = universal_data_sources
    feature_views = construct_universal_feature_views(data_sources)

    customer_df, driver_df, orders_df, global_df, entity_df = (
        datasets["customer"],
        datasets["driver"],
        datasets["orders"],
        datasets["global"],
        datasets["entity"],
    )
    
    # ... more test code

    customer_fv, driver_fv, driver_odfv, order_fv, global_fv = (
        feature_views["customer"],
        feature_views["driver"],
        feature_views["driver_odfv"],
        feature_views["order"],
        feature_views["global"],
    )

    feature_service = FeatureService(
        "convrate_plus100",
        features=[
            feature_views["driver"][["conv_rate"]], 
            feature_views["driver_odfv"]
        ],
    )

    feast_objects = []
    feast_objects.extend(
        [
            customer_fv,
            driver_fv,
            driver_odfv,
            order_fv,
            global_fv,
            driver(),
            customer(),
            feature_service,
        ]
    )
    store.apply(feast_objects)

    # ... more test code

    job_from_df = store.get_historical_features(
        entity_df=entity_df_with_request_data,
        features=[
            "driver_stats:conv_rate",
            "driver_stats:avg_daily_trips",
            "customer_profile:current_balance",
            "customer_profile:avg_passenger_count",
            "customer_profile:lifetime_trip_count",
            "conv_rate_plus_100:conv_rate_plus_100",
            "conv_rate_plus_100:conv_rate_plus_val_to_add",
            "order:order_is_success",
            "global_stats:num_rides",
            "global_stats:avg_ride_length",
        ],
        full_feature_names=full_feature_names,
    )
    actual_df_from_df_entities = job_from_df.to_df()

    # ... more test code

    assert_frame_equal(
        expected_df, actual_df_from_df_entities, check_dtype=False,
    )
    
    # ... more test code

The key fixtures are the environment and universal_data_sources fixtures, which are defined in the feature_repos directories. This by default pulls in a standard dataset with driver and customer entities, certain feature views, and feature values. By including the environment as a parameter, the test automatically parametrizes across other offline / online store combinations.

Writing a new test or reusing existing tests

To add a new test to an existing test file

• Use the same function signatures as an existing test (e.g. use environment as an argument) to include the relevant test fixtures.

• If possible, expand an individual test instead of writing a new test, due to the cost of standing up offline / online stores.

To test a new offline / online store from a plugin repo

• Install Feast in editable mode with pip install -e.

• The core tests for offline / online store behavior are parametrized by the FULL_REPO_CONFIGS variable defined in feature_repos/repo_configuration.py. To overwrite this variable without modifying the Feast repo, create your own file that contains a FULL_REPO_CONFIGS (which will require adding a new IntegrationTestRepoConfig or two) and set the environment variable FULL_REPO_CONFIGS_MODULE to point to that file. Then the core offline / online store tests can be run with make test-python-universal.

• See the custom offline store demo and the custom online store demo for examples.

To include a new offline / online store in the main Feast repo

• Extend data_source_creator.py for your offline store.

• In repo_configuration.py add a newIntegrationTestRepoConfig or two (depending on how many online stores you want to test).

• Run the full test suite with make test-python-integration.

To include a new online store

• In repo_configuration.py add a new config that maps to a serialized version of configuration you need in feature_store.yaml to setup the online store.

• In repo_configuration.py, add newIntegrationTestRepoConfig for offline stores you want to test.

• Run the full test suite with make test-python-integration

To use custom data in a new test

• Check test_universal_types.py for an example of how to do this.

@pytest.mark.integration
def your_test(environment: Environment):
    df = #...#
    data_source = environment.data_source_creator.create_data_source(
        df,
        destination_name=environment.feature_store.project
    )
    your_fv = driver_feature_view(data_source)
    entity = driver(value_type=ValueType.UNKNOWN)
    fs.apply([fv, entity])
    
    # ... run test