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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide - Second Edition

By : Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
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Book Image

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide - Second Edition

5 (2)
By: Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar

Overview of this book

This book will focus on the revised version of AWS Certified Developer Associate exam. The 2019 version of this exam guide includes all the recent services and offerings from Amazon that benefits developers. AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book will describe about getting familiar with Identity and Access Management (IAM) along with Virtual private cloud (VPC). Next, this book will teach you about microservices, serverless architecture, security best practices, advanced deployment methods and more. Going ahead we will take you through AWS DynamoDB A NoSQL Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and CloudFormation Overview. Lastly, this book will help understand Elastic Beanstalk and will also walk you through AWS lambda. At the end of this book, we will cover enough topics, tips and tricks along with mock tests for you to be able to pass the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam and develop as well as manage your applications on the AWS platform.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
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Overview of AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification

Introducing AWS CodeBuild

In general, there are various models and strategies available to perform automated testing on an application or a source code. One of the most famous in testing strategies is Mike Cohn's Test Pyramid. In general, 70% of the time are spent on unit testing (that is, code testing). This can be done using AWS CodeBuild. Another 20% and 10% of the total time is spent on the service testing and UI testing, respectively, using third-party tools. The following diagram helps to illustrate this. The test starts with unit testing, which is more isolated and faster to carry out; this is at the bottom of the pyramid. As we move toward the top, testing becomes slower and more integrated:

Figure 21.1: Mike Cohn's Test Pyramid

If the application development language is compiler-based, such as .NET, Java, Go, or iOS, we need to convert the committed source...