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AWS CDK in Practice

You're reading from   AWS CDK in Practice Unleash the power of ordinary coding and streamline complex cloud applications on AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812399
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Leo Lam Leo Lam
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Mark Avdi Mark Avdi
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Preface 1. Part 1: An Introduction to AWS CDK
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with IaC and AWS CDK FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: A Starter Project and Core Concepts 4. Part 2: Practical Cloud Development with AWS CDK
5. Chapter 3: Building a Full Stack Application with CDK 6. Chapter 4: Complete Web Application Deployment with AWS CDK 7. Chapter 5: Continuous Delivery with CDK-Powered Apps 8. Chapter 6: Testing and Troubleshooting AWS CDK Applications 9. Part 3: Serverless Development with AWS CDK
10. Chapter 7: Serverless Application Development with AWS CDK 11. Chapter 8: Streamlined Serverless Development 12. Part 4: Advanced Architectural Concepts
13. Chapter 9: Indestructible Serverless Application Architecture (ISAA) 14. Chapter 10: The Current CDK Landscape and Outlook 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing and Troubleshooting AWS CDK Applications

Testing is a crucial part of building reliable and performant applications, and developing CDK applications is no exception to that. If you speak to the developers working with me (Mark), they will make jokes about my obsession with writing tests. We don’t even necessarily enjoy the process of writing tests, although we must admit that watching green ticks appear when test scenarios are run is fun.

In this chapter, we will dive into the world of testing in the context of AWS CDK applications. Automated testing is essential for running a sanity check on your application and ensuring that the functionality and state of your application are as expected, even when new components are added or changed. We will focus on automated testing since manual testing can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially as CDK apps become more complex.

The primary purpose of automated testing is to run through a checklist of tests as quickly...

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