How can I debug this? Is it even possible? What about automated testing? How can this fit into CI/CD? These are all very valid questions that are often asked when developing serverless applications on AWS. Realistically it becomes difficult once you get past unit testing a Lambda, let alone trying to debug a Step Function, test what we’re publishing to SQS, EventBridge or SNS, or finding an issue in a direct integration.

This talk looks at a number of different real world situations in which teams I’ve been part of have needed to debug and test various parts of serverless applications and show how they solved the problem. During the talk, I'll be showing demos of various setups that have been successfully used ranging from running everything locally, to everything in a remote environment, to automated inside a Github Actions pipeline.

While not claiming to have solutions for every possibility you should come away with some full solutions and some ideas to take back to your day to day work.