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The code in this blog post is written in TypeScript and uses AWS CDK for infrastructure piece. This GitHub repository contains all the code used in this article.
First, I start the Step Function, and then I assert, using the aws-testing-library, whether the item was correctly saved into the Amazon DynamoDB.
Check out the sls-test-tools as well. It is a great library. I'm using aws-testing-library because I'm used to it.
Since I will be using the Docker version of the aws-stepfunctions-local, the first step is to integrate the act of spinning up and spinning down the container into the testing flow. My personal go-to in such situations is the testcontainers package.
The code in this blog post is written in TypeScript and uses AWS CDK for infrastructure piece. This GitHub repository contains all the code used in this article.
Let us evolve our Step Function to include "background-check" AWS Lambda function. Depending on the result, the user in the DynamoDB table will have its backgroundCheck attribute populated (either "PASS", "FAIL" or "ERROR").
The code in this blog post is written in TypeScript and uses AWS CDK for infrastructure piece. This GitHub repository contains all the code used in this article.