AWS Lambda in Action

Chapter 13. Improving development and testing

This chapter covers

• Weighing the pros and cons of local development of Lambda functions
• Logging and debugging your code
• Using Lambda function versions and aliases
• Presenting an overview of the most popular tools and framework for building serverless apps
• Implementing a serverless testing framework for Lambda functions

In the previous chapter, you focused on the advantages and pitfalls of event-driven applications and distributed architectures, with a more theoretic approach than the previous chapters.

Now you return to hands-on experience to see how development and testing can be improved using more advanced AWS Lambda features, such as versioning and aliases, and specific tools and frameworks ...