Spark, Spark Streaming and Spark SQL unit testing strategies Features ClockWrapper for efficient clock management in Spark Streaming jobs. Base traits for testing Spark, Spark Streaming and Spark SQL to eliminate boilerplate code. Sample applications to show how to make your code testable. All tests can be run or debugged directly from IDE, or using SBT. All test fixtures are prepared as in-memory data structures. SBT is configured to avoid problems with multiple Spark contexts in the same JVM SPARK-2243. SBT is configured to prepare project assembly for deployment on the cluster. References http://mkuthan.github.io/blog/2015/03/01/spark-unit-testing/ https://github.com/holdenk/spark-testing-base