Today, I’m excited to announce enhanced local testing capabilities for AWS Step Functions through the TestState API, our testing API.
These enhancements are available through the API, so you can build automated test suites that validate your workflow definitions locally on your development machines, test error handling patterns, data transformations, and mock service integrations using your preferred testing frameworks. This launch introduces an API-based approach for local unit testing, providing programmatic access to comprehensive testing capabilities without deploying to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
There are three key capabilities introduced in this enhanced TestState API:
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Mocking support – Mock state outputs and errors without invoking downstream services, enabling true unit…
