Feature - Adding custom descriptions to tests

[hasnan-din]

It would be great to have custom names & possibly even descriptions as part of the variables used when creating tests. It would help a lot for interpreting results and displaying the outcome to end users!

[Maayan-s]

Thank you for opening this issue @hasnan-din!

These are actually 2 feature requests:

1. Custom names for tests
2. Descriptions for tests

About custom names - This is supported in dbt since 1.1. Config would look like this:

        tests:
          - name: unexpected_order_status    # custom name for test
            test_name: accepted_values      # name of the generic test to apply

However, test description would be a great way to provide context in alerts and report! I'll leave this issue for the description, and opened 2 additional issues to use the dbt custom name in alerts and report.