CDK Integration Testing

Ben Force
Towards AWS
Published in
6 min readNov 19, 2021

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Integration tests are challenging in a standard application. They’re even more challenging in a decoupled, asynchronous environment. If you’re running them in a pipeline, you have to figure out all of the resource ARNs and make sure you have permission to access each of them. Also, what happens if your integration tests fail? Do you send a notification so someone can manually redeploy the previous version?

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I am a 5x AWS certified senior full-stack developer. I write about cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, and automation.