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Kenneth Knowles resolved BEAM-3159.
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Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
> DoFnTester should be deprecated in favor of TestPipeline
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> Key: BEAM-3159
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3159
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: sdk-java-core
> Reporter: Ben Chambers
> Assignee: Kenneth Knowles
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.4.0
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> Time Spent: 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Reasons:
> 1. The logical unit within a Beam pipeline is a transform. Either a small
> transform like a ParDo or a larger composite transform. Unit tests should
> focus on these units, rather than probing specific behaviors of the
> user-defined functions.
> 2. The way that a runner interacts with a user-defined function is not
> necessarily obvious. DoFnTester allows testing non-sensical cases that
> wouldn't arise in practice, since it allows low-level interactions with the
> actual UDFs.
> Instead, we should encourage the use of TestPipeline with the direct runner.
> This allows testing a single transform (such as a ParDo running a UDF) in
> context. It also makes it easier to test things like side-inputs and multiple
> outputs, since you use the same techniques in the test as you would in a real
> pipeline, rather than requiring a whole new API.
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