How does your data team unit test data transformation code, especially when that code is written in SQL?


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Director of Engineering in Healthcare and Biotech, 501 - 1,000 employees
Use fake input into the code under test and check to ensure the output matches what's expected. 
Director of Engineering in Software, 10,001+ employees
Enter dummy data and validate various use cases
Director of Customer Engineering - APAC in Software, 201 - 500 employees
Validate with dummy data
Sr. Director of Engineering in Software, 51 - 200 employees
Use simulated data streams to create artificial datasets using data tranformation code and validate it against expected output.

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