Without the change `tests` eval fails as:
$ nix build --no-link -f. spark.tests --arg config '{ allowAliases = false; }'
error: attribute 'nixosTest' missing
12| };
13| testSparkCluster = { sparkPackage, ... }: pkgs.nixosTest ({
| ^
14| name = "spark";
Did you mean nixosTests?
`nixosTest` is an alias defined as:
pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix: nixosTest = testers.nixosTest; # Added 2022-05-05