Serverless Mocha Plugin

A Serverless Plugin for the Serverless Framework which adds support for test driven development using mocha

THIS PLUGIN REQUIRES SERVERLESS V1!

More familiar with Jest? Use serverless-jest-plugin.

Introduction

This plugins does the following:

It provides commands to create and run tests manually
It provides a command to create a function, which automatically also creates a test

Installation

In your service root, run:

npm install --save-dev serverless-mocha-plugin

Add the plugin to serverless.yml:

plugins:
  - serverless-mocha-plugin

Usage

Creating functions

Functions (and associated tests) can be created using the command

sls create function -f functionName --handler handler

e.g.

sls create function -f myFunction --handler functions/myFunction/index.handler

creates a new function myFunction into serverless.yml with a code template for the handler in functions/myFunction/index.js and a Javascript function module.exports.handler as the entrypoint for the Lambda function. A test template is also created into test/myFunction.js. Optionally tests can be created to specific folder using --path or -p switch, e.g.

sls create function -f myFunction --handler functions/myFunction/index.handler --path tests

To create an http event for the lambda, add the --httpEvent parameter, i.e.

sls create function -f myFunction --handler functions/myFunction/index.handler --httpEvent "[httpVerb] [relativePath]"

e.g.

sls create function -f myFunction --handler functions/myFunction/index.handler --httpEvent "post myResource" --httpEvent "get myResource"

Creating tests

Functions can also be added manually using the mocha-create command

sls create test -f functionName

If you want to run the tests against the real Lambda functions, you can pass the liveFunction object to wrapper.init().

  wrapper.init(liveFunction);

NOTE: Live running does not currently work. Waiting for serverless 1.0 to finalize / have required env variables available

Running tests

Tests can be run directly using the "invoke test" command. This also initializes the environment variables based on your serverless.yml file and the SERVERLESS_TEST_ROOT variable that defines the root for the code to be tested.

sls invoke test [--stage stage] [--region region] [-f function1] [-f function2] [...]

To use a mocha reporter (e.g. json), use the -R switch. Reporter options can be passed with the -O switch.

If no function names are passed to "invoke test", all tests are run from the test/ directory

The default timeout for tests is 6 seconds. In case you need to apply a different timeout, that can be done in the test file using using .timeout(milliseconds) with the define, after, before or it -blocks. e.g.

  it('implement tests here', () => {
    ...
  }).timeout(xxx);

To run test in specific folder use --path or -p switch.

To run tests live against the actual deployed Lambdas, use the '--live' or '-l' switch. Please note that this will work only for tests created with module version 1.4 or higher.

To run tests e.g. against built artefacts that reside in some other directory, use the '--root' or '-r' switch. e.g.

  sls webpack -o testBuild
  sls invoke test -r testBuild
  rm -rf testBuild

Using own template for a test file

The templates to use for new function Files can be determined with the custom testTemplate configuration in serverless.yml

custom:
  serverless-mocha-plugin:
    testTemplate: templates/myTest.js

Currently, there are three variables available for use in the template:

functionName - name of the function
functionPath - path to the function
handlerName - the name of the handler function

If you'd like to get more information on the template engine, you check documentation of the EJS project.

Using own template for function file

The templates to use for new function Files can be determined with the custom functionTemplate configuration in serverless.yml

custom:
  serverless-mocha-plugin:
    functionTemplate: templates/myFunction.js

Release History (1.x)

2017/07/11 - v1.4.1 - Add option --root for running tests on e.g. webpack build results residing in other directories, add option --httpEvent to create http events when creating functions
2017/07/09 - v1.4.0 - Add --live switch, add --grep switch, verify that the test runtime matches the service runtime, upgrade lambda-wrapper (returns exceptions as errors)
2016/12/21 - v1.3.2 - Fix population of environment variables
2016/11/28 - v1.3.1 - Added support for environment variables in Serverless 1.2
2016/11/09 - v1.2.0 - Added ability to add function / test templates
2016/11/09 - v1.1.0 - Added function create command.
2016/09/23 - v1.0.2 - Bugfixes, configurable test timeouts
2016/08/15 - v1.0.0 - Preliminary version for Serverless 1.0

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