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Testing AWS CDK Constructs with Fine-grained Assertions

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Students: 143

Rating: 5/5

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Description

The AWS CDK provides an Assertions module that allows you to test the AWS CloudFormation template that is generated by your CDK application. The CDK also supports testing your application with the Pytest framework to enable local, test-driven development.

This lab will focus on writing fine-grained assertion tests to evaluate your CDK resources and ensure they've been configured with the appropriate properties. With that in mind, you will not be deploying the application used in this lab. In this lab, you will work with the Template, Capture, and Match constructs to build out efficient unit tests that can detect regressions as you develop new application features.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this intermediate-level lab, you will be able to:

Explore the AWS CDK Assertions module
Write fine-grained assertions that test the generated AWS CloudFormation template
Run tests using the Pytest framework