How to write unit test for the function which is accessing aws resources?

Question

I have a function which is accessing multiple aws resources and now need to test this function, but I don't know how to mock these resources.

I have tried following github of aws-sdk-mock, but didn't get much there.

function someData(event, configuration, callback) {

    // sts set-up
    var sts = new AWS.STS(configuration.STS_CONFIG);

    sts.assumeRole({
      DurationSeconds: 3600,
      RoleArn: process.env.CROSS_ACCOUNT_ROLE,
      RoleSessionName: configuration.ROLE_NAME
    }, function(err, data) {
      if (err) {
        // an error occurred
        console.log(err, err.stack);
      } else {
        // successful response

        // resolving static credential
        var creds = new AWS.Credentials({
          accessKeyId: data.Credentials.AccessKeyId,
          secretAccessKey: data.Credentials.SecretAccessKey,
          sessionToken: data.Credentials.SessionToken
        });

         // Query function
         var dynamodb = new AWS.DynamoDB({apiVersion: configuration.API_VERSION, credentials:  creds, region: configuration.REGION});
         var docClient = new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient({apiVersion: configuration.API_VERSION, region: configuration.REGION, endpoint: configuration.DDB_ENDPOINT, service: dynamodb });

            // extract params
            var ID = event.queryStringParameters.Id;
            console.log('metrics of id ' + ID);

            var params = {
                TableName: configuration.TABLE_NAME,
                ProjectionExpression: configuration.PROJECTION_ATTR,
                KeyConditionExpression: '#ID = :ID',
                ExpressionAttributeNames: {
                    '#ID': configuration.ID
                },
                ExpressionAttributeValues: {
                    ':ID': ID
                }
            };

            queryDynamoDB(params, docClient).then((response) => {
                console.log('Params: ' + JSON.stringify(params));
                // if the query is Successful
                if( typeof(response[0]) !== 'undefined'){
                    response[0]['Steps'] = process.env.STEPS;
                    response[0]['PageName'] = process.env.STEPS_NAME;
                }
                console.log('The response you get', response);
                var success = {
                    statusCode: HTTP_RESPONSE_CONSTANTS.SUCCESS.statusCode,
                    body: JSON.stringify(response),
                    headers: {
                        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
                    },
                    isBase64Encoded: false
                };
                return callback(null, success);
            }, (err) => {
                // return internal server error
                return callback(null, HTTP_RESPONSE_CONSTANTS.BAD_REQUEST);
            });
      }

    });

}

This is lambda function which I need to test, there are some env variable also which is being used here.

Now I tried writing Unit test for above function using aws-sdk-mock but still I am not able to figure out how to actually do it. Any help will be appreciated. Below is my test code

describe('test getMetrics', function() {

    var expectedOnInvalid = HTTP_RESPONSE_CONSTANTS.BAD_REQUEST;

    it('should assume role ', function(done){
        var event = {
          queryStringParameters : {
              Id: '123456'
          }
        };

        AWS.mock('STS', 'assumeRole', 'roleAssumed');
        AWS.restore('STS');
        AWS.mock('Credentials', 'credentials');
        AWS.restore('Credentials');
        AWS.mock('DynamoDB.DocumentClient', 'get', 'message');
        AWS.mock('DynamoDB', 'describeTable', 'message');
        AWS.restore('DynamoDB');
        AWS.restore('DynamoDB.DocumentClient');

        someData(event, configuration, (err, response) => {
            expect(response).to.deep.equal(expectedOnInvalid);
            done();
        });


    });


});

I am getting the following error :

{ MultipleValidationErrors: There were 2 validation errors:
* MissingRequiredParameter: Missing required key 'RoleArn' in params
* MissingRequiredParameter: Missing required key 'RoleSessionName' in params

Answer 1

Try setting aws-sdk module explicitly.
Project structures that don't include the aws-sdk at the top level node_modules project folder will not be properly mocked. An example of this would be installing the aws-sdk in a nested project directory. You can get around this by explicitly setting the path to a nested aws-sdk module using setSDK().

const AWSMock = require('aws-sdk-mock');
import AWS = require('aws-sdk');
AWSMock.setSDKInstance(AWS);

For more details on this : Read aws-sdk-mock documentation, they have explained it even better.