Testing

If you’re planning to use Python moto library (to mock AWS resources) for unit tests and at the same time use integration tests - watch out as it can bite you!

Is it possible to create local environment for Serverless application? And if it is possible - is it worth the effort?

Obeying to the TDD (Test Driven Development) saved me a lot of time so I decided to write about it. It nicely shows the real-life advantage you can get from following TDD. Now, to keep it short - few days ago I was writing some business logic that did some audit recording changes. For the sake of brevity imagine it was something between those lines: public void recordAudits(Data data) { if (data....

When you write your unit tests you must use some kind of assertions. I think that most of you will agree with me on that the asserts that comes with the JUnit aren’t the easiest and most readable ones. So, some time ago I started to use a Hamcrest matcher library. It was a great progress, as I was able to move away from JUnit’s unintuitive: assertEquals(11.0, actual). I mean, if you try to read it out loud it doesn’t seem very logical:...