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How to Unit Test Lambda Functions in Local/CI Environment?

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#16 opened on Jan 26, 2016

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How are we going to Unit Test the Lambda handler to ensure it works as expected? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/serverless-testing-with-aws-lambda/ ? https://medium.com/@AdamRNeary/developing-and-testing-amazon-lambda-functions-e590fac85df4

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Review the linked articles and AWS documentation on unit testing Lambda functions. Then, create a step by step guide or example tests to be included in the repository.
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