Data tests family

Templates: databricks/tests/data_tests.jinja

Roots: workflow, step, source, sources, this, methodology, tests, connection

The data-test notebook: the step-notebook context extended with a tests block. On this family every base group is present in practice, the methodology’s audit columns arrive fully expanded, and connection carries the destination catalog and schema (not the source connector).

Field	Type	Meaning
tests.loadStepName	string	The load step this test step validates.
tests.sourceTableFqn	string	The source table’s fully qualified name (the first upstream feed).
tests.targetTableFqn	string	The table being written.
tests.assertionsPython	string	The rendered Python assertion body, built from the table’s effective tests and the source and target column sets.
connection.catalog / .schema	string	Destination catalog and schema; the literal unknown when the table has no resolvable connection.
methodology.auditColumns[]	array	Real expanded audit columns (name, expression); the empty floor is replaced before this family renders.