Ah this is very helpful. I think this is missing in the testing guide. I'll
make a short PR to mention it.
Best
-P.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 3:37 PM Anton Kedin <[email protected]> wrote:

> IT tests exist in java, similar to unit tests and not marked in a special
> way, except they're called *IT.java instead of *Test.java. They're run from
> corresponding tasks:
>  -
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/d6c5bf977fc688f289f1bb06e30f25b05bf987b2/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/pubsub/PubsubReadIT.java#L33
>
>  -
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/build.gradle#L85
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 3:27 PM Pablo Estrada <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> In Python, we tag some test methods with @attr('ValidatesRunner') and
>> @attr('IT'), which marks them to be run as pipeline tests.
>>
>> If I understand correctly:
>> - ValidatesRunner tests are more like a component tests[1] as explained
>> in Beam docs
>> - IT tests are more like a E2E test[2] as explained in the docs. Is there
>> an equivalent in Java?
>> - Finally, there's ValidatesContainer tests. What are these for? What's
>> the guidance for tagging our tests this way?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -P.
>>
>> [1] https://beam.apache.org/contribute/testing/#validatesrunner
>> [2] https://beam.apache.org/contribute/testing/#e2e
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