[SPARK-22308] Support unit tests of spark code using ScalaTest using suites other than FunSuite

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: Documentation, Spark Core, SQL, Tests
• Labels: scalatest test-suite test_issue
• Assignee: Nathan Kronenfeld
• Reporter: Nathan Kronenfeld
• Created: 19/Oct/17 00:01
• Updated: 10/Nov/17 03:12
• Resolved: 10/Nov/17 03:12

Description

External codebases that have spark code can test it using SharedSparkContext, no matter how they write their scalatests - basing on FunSuite, FunSpec, FlatSpec, or WordSpec.

SharedSQLContext only supports FunSuite.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #19529 (nkronenfeld)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #19705 (nkronenfeld)