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<h1>Using the Test Mode Configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#using-the-test-mode-configuration" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>Airflow has a fixed set of “test mode” configuration options. You can load these
at any time by calling <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">airflow.configuration.load_test_config()</span></code> (note this
operation is not reversible!). However, some options (like the DAG_FOLDER) are
loaded before you have a chance to call load_test_config(). In order to eagerly load
the test configuration, set test_mode in airflow.cfg:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">[</span>tests<span class="o">]</span>
<span class="nv">unit_test_mode</span> <span class="o">=</span> True
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<p>Due to Airflow’s automatic environment variable expansion (see <a class="reference internal" href="set-config.html"><span class="doc">Setting Configuration Options</span></a>),
you can also set the env var <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AIRFLOW__CORE__UNIT_TEST_MODE</span></code> to temporarily overwrite
airflow.cfg.</p>
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