Data Engineering Best Practices

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Key Considerations for Quality Testing Best Practices

In Fred Brooks’s classic work The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, which some have referred to as the bible of software engineering, you can read the following:

You can’t measure productivity by hours; there is only one metric for productivity: the quality and usefulness of the software produced. (Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, (https://packt-debp.link/MRc9dc))

In this chapter, you will be exposed to the many aspects of solution testing with a focus on preserving data quality. We begin with an overview.

Quality testing overview

According to the late Fred Brooks, the only quality metrics that should be considered, among the myriad ...