Building and Testing Using AWS CodeBuild
In this chapter, you will learn about the AWS CodeBuild service and how you can use this service to build your source code. In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:
- What is AWS CodeBuild?
- The benefits of using CodeBuild
- The limitations of CodeBuild
- Understanding buildspec files
- Integration with CodeCommit
- Testing using CodeBuild
- Build metrics
- Build notifications
- Build triggers
- Local build support
In the previous chapter, we learned about the CodeArtifact service and how we generate the artifacts as part of the build process. Developers write code using the programming language of their choice. Once they are done, they need to merge the code to a central repository such as CodeCommit for integration. Once the changes have been merged, code needs to be built as well as tested to make sure that there are no compilation errors and all of the changes pass the unit tests. AWS CodeBuild...
