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I am using the serverless framework for running lambda functions on AWS.

In my serverless.yml there are environment variables that are fetched from SSM.

When I write integration tests for the code, I need the code to have the environment variables and I can't find a good way to do this.

I don't want to duplicate all the variables definitions just for the tests, they are already defined in the serverless.yml. Also, some are secrets and I can't commit them to source conrol, so I would have to also repeat them in the ci environment.

Tried using the serverless-jest-plugin but it is not working and not well maintained.

Ideas I had for solutions:

1. Make the tests exec sls invoke - this will work but would mean that the code cannot be debugged, I won't know the test coverage, and it will be slow.


2. Parse the serverless.yml myself and export the env variables - possible but rewriting the logic of pulling the SSM variables just for tests seems wrong.

Any ideas?

Are you looking to do mocked unit tests, or something more like integration tests?

In the first case, you don't need real values for the environment variables. Mock your database, or whatever requires environment variables set. This is actually the preferable way because the tests will run super quickly with proper mocks.

If you are actually looking to go with end-to-end/integration kind of approach, then you would do something like sls invoke, but from jest using javascript. So, like regular network calls to your deployed api.

Also, I would recommend not to store keys in serverless.yml. Try the secret: $env:MY_SECRET syntax instead (https://serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/guide/variables#referencing-environment-variables), and use environment variables instead. If you have a ci/cd build server, you can store your secrets there.