Introduction to Automation Testing

Automation testing is a technique that allows us to test the code of our application without having to build the entire application and validate its behavior manually. It can be applied to any application type, and AWS Lambda applications are not an exception.

How automation testing works on .NET

There are three main testing frameworks supported by .NET:

• xUnit

• NUnit

• MSTest

Although these frameworks use different ways of writing tests, and each has its pros and cons, the general principles of how they work are the same. The process of writing tests will go through the following stages:

1. Create a test project: We need to create a project that will contain our test methods. This will always be separate from the project we’re testing. The test project will have ...