AWS Lambda Stubs

Gone are the days you need to write stubs to unit test your AWS Lambda functions locally. This repository provides simple stubs for AWS Lambda services, allowing you to focus on writing and testing your Lambda functions without the overhead of continuously writing the same boilerplate stubs.

This is highly inspired by @types/aws-lambda that already provides the type definitions for AWS Lambda events and context.

There is support for all the typed AWS Lambda events defined in @types/aws-lambda and will be continuously updated as new event types are added. Each event that exists in @types/aws-lambda will have a corresponding stub function that is named by appending Stub to the event name. For example, for the SQSEvent type, there will be a SQSEventStub function that generates a stubbed SQS event object.

Installation

You can install the package via npm:

npm install --save-dev aws-lambda-stubs

Usage

Here's a simple example of how to use the stubs in your unit tests, given that handler is a Lambda function you want to test:

import { SQSEventStub } from "aws-lambda-stubs";
import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
import { handler } from "../src/sqs";

describe("sqs handler", () => {
  it("should log the received event", async () => {
    const mockEvent = SQSEventStub([
      {
        body: { message: "Hello, World!" },
      }
    ]);

    expect(handler(mockEvent)).toEqual({});
  });
});

The content of mockEvent will be:

{
  "Records": [
    {
      "messageId": "1",
      "receiptHandle": "MessageReceiptHandle",
      "body": "{\"key\":\"value\"}",
      "attributes": {
        "ApproximateReceiveCount": "1",
        "SentTimestamp": "1523232000000",
        "SenderId": "123456789012",
        "ApproximateFirstReceiveTimestamp": "1523232000001"
      },
      "messageAttributes": {},
      "md5OfBody": "a7353f7cddce808de0032747a0b7be50",
      "eventSource": "aws:sqs",
      "eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:012345678901:queue-name",
      "awsRegion": "us-east-1"
    }
  ]
}

As you can see, the stub provides a valid SQS event object that can be used to test your Lambda function locally. Saving you the trouble of having to create these objects manually.

Using the stubs will provide you valid AWS Lambda event objects, that are type-safe and in-sync with the actual AWS Lambda event definitions and typescript types from @types/aws-lambda.

Important

Always customize the stub data to match your specific test cases. The stubs provide default values, but you should modify them to reflect the scenarios you want to test. Especially ensure that if you are checking against specific values in your tests, the stub data should match those values accordingly to avoid test failures if the default stubs change.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you have suggestions for new stubs or improvements to existing ones, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.