serverless-testing-library

serverless-testing-library makes it easier to write integration and smoke tests for your serverless APIs.

Usage

A simple request.

const test = require(‘serverless-testing-library’);
 
it(‘gets a 200 response’, async () => {
  const app = test()
 
  const response = await app.get('/')
 
  assert.equal(response.status, 200)
  assert.equal(response.body.foo, 'bar')
})

Here, we import the top-level function test from serverless-testing-library and call it. This method reads the serverless configuration file in the root of your project and configures a simple express server wrapped in some convenient testing methods. We then call the get method, passing it a URL path that exists on our API. The response object returned from get contains the HTTP status code and parsed header and body objects.

serverless-testing-library supports the 5 major HTTP methods: GET, DELETE, PATCH, POST and PUT. Each method called on the app instance returns a Promise to be handled in your tests.

The test method optionally accepts a serverless configuration file path:

const app = test('my_api.yml') // resolves <project_root>/my_api.yml
const app = test('foo/api.yml') // resolves <project_root>/foo/api.yml

If you are testing a project that lives outside of your project root, resolve the path to the serverless configuration file:

const path = require('path')
const test = require('serverless-testing-library')
 
const filePath = path.resolve(process.cwd(), '../other-project/serverless.yml')
 
const app = test(filePath)

You can find the complete API documentation here.

Chai Assertions

For those using mocha and chai to test their API's, serverless-testing-library ships with a simple set of chai assertions.

const chai = require('chai')
const stlChai = require('serverless-testing-library/chai')
 
chai.use(stlChai)

You can then use the assertions like so:

expect(response).to.have.status(200)
expect(response).to.have.header('x-api-key')
expect(response).to.be.json

Jest Asssertions

Jest users are not left out: serverless-testing-library also ships with the same matchers for jest.

// test.setup.js
 
require('serverless-testing-library/jest')

Then configure jest to use the above setup script in either the jest key of package.json or jest.config.js:

// package.json
"jest": {
    "setupTestFrameworkScriptFile": "./test.setup.js"
}

Then use it in your test:

expect(response).toHaveStatus(200)
expect(response).toHaveHeader('x-api-key')
expect(response).toBeJson()

Acknowledgements

serverless-testing-library is heavily inspired by chai-http. The name for this library was inspired by react-testing-library.

License

See LICENSE