Beyond the Unit: A Holistic Approach to Testing Serverless Architectures
summary
Shows concrete testing practices for serverless systems: consumer-driven contract testing with Pact and a Pact Broker to generate JSON contracts that producers validate before deploy, integration tests covering AWS Lambda + DynamoDB + SQS interactions, and chaos experiments using AWS Fault Injection Simulator to find resilience gaps. Reports that end-to-end tests largely disappear in serverless environments and that adopting Pact reduced production contract regressions by catching breaking changes pre-deploy.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Black swans to serverless
- 2:55Unit to integration to end-to-end
- 7:15Microservice unit tests fail
- 10:47Consumer-driven contract testing
- 14:23Message-based microservice testing
- 17:56Testing pyramid in serverless
- 20:24Unit and integration in serverless
- 22:32Chaos engineering for serverless
- 26:54Key takeaways
- 28:40Q&A
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