OpenJS World 2022

SQSlite allows us to create a mock of Simple Queue Service (SQS) in order to test interactions with AWS. SQSlite is a lightweight solution that can be installed as a node module, or work as a standalone command line interface (CLI) tool. You do not need to register, provide a credit card or worry about running over the free limit when using AWS for development. Developing software using AWS directly causes costs to soar. There are some solutions such as localstack, and other stand-alone applications that imitate a particular service. However, there was no available solution for SQS service. I will share SQSLite’s journey from research to implementation and final result, as well as my personal story of becoming an open-source contributor.

According to many surveys VSCode has shown to be the favorite IDE of choice for developers. However, everyone who has tried to build a VSCode extension has realised that testing it from end to end is a difficult endeavour. The VSCode ecosystem has not yet provided the tools to make this simple and efficient. Therefore many extensions are lacking of tests especially when they consists of different webviews and panels. This can hurt the developer experience for extension users. In this talk Christian Bromann, Software Engineer at Stateful, will showcase how to write UI tests for Electron applications and particularly will uncover how VSCode extension developers can use this stack to test complex extensions from end to end.