I am trying to come up with a method to test a number of Jupyter notebooks. A test should run when a new notebook is implemented in a Github branch and submitted for a pull request. The tests are not that complicated, they are mostly just testing if the notebook runs end-to-end and without any errors, and maybe a few asserts. However:
- There are certain calls in some cells that need to be mocked, e.g. a call to download the data from a database.
- There may be some magic cells in the notebooks which run a pip command or something else.
I am open to use any testing library, such as 'pytest' or unittest, although pytest is preferred.
I looked at a few libraries for testing notebooks such as 
The trick is to inject a cell before my call to bigquery.Client and mock it:
from testbook import testbook
@testbook('./my_notebook.ipynb')
def test_get_details(tb):
tb.inject(
"""
import mock
mock_client = mock.MagicMock()
mock_df = pd.DataFrame()
mock_df['week'] = range(10)
mock_df['count'] = 5
p1 = mock.patch.object(bigquery, 'Client', return_value=mock_client)
mock_client.query().result().to_dataframe.return_value = mock_df
p1.start()
""",
before=2,
run=False
)
tb.execute()
dataframe = tb.get('dataframe')
assert dataframe.shape == (10, 2)
x = tb.get('x')
assert x == 7
