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Testing AWS Config rules using potemkin-decorator

Automated integration testing of a python AWS Config rule is a challenging, but necessary undertaking to ensure that the rule provides accurate results. Creating resources, waiting for the result to show up in AWS Config, testing the results and tearing down the resources in best case circumstances takes several minutes.  And it can take many Read more…

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AWS Integration Testing for boto with potemkin-decorator

Test Automation for Integrating with External Services Developing test automation code for an interface to an “external” service is always a difficult proposition.  There is a spectrum of techniques for developing reproducible tests against an external service. On one end of the spectrum are “mocking” techniques and on the other far end of the spectrum Read more…