Structure my jest tests for AWS Lambda project

Here is a possible way to structure your jest tests for an AWS lambda project:

• Create a __tests__ folder in the root directory of your project, where you will put all your test files.

• Inside the __tests__ folder, create one file per lambda function that you want to test, named after the function and suffixed with .test.js. For example, if you have a function named myFunction, create a file named myFunction.test.js.

• Inside each test file, import the function that you want to test and create a test case for it. You can use the test or it functions provided by jest to define the test case and its expected outcome.

• If you have helper functions or shared data that you want to use across multiple test files, you can put them in a helpers folder inside the __tests__ folder. For example, you can create a helpers/testData.js file that exports some sample data that you can use in your tests.

• If you want to organize your tests into different groups or categories, you can create subfolders inside the __tests__ folder and put the corresponding test files inside them. For example, you can create a __tests__/unit folder for unit tests and a __tests__/integration folder for integration tests.

Here is an example of how your directory structure could look like:

project
├── __tests__
│   ├── __mocks__
│   │   ├── fs.js
│   │   └── s3.js
│   ├── helpers
│   │   ├── testData.js
│   │   └── testUtils.js
│   ├── myFunction.test.js
│   ├── myOtherFunction.test.js
│   ├── unit
│   │   └── myFunction.unit.test.js
│   └── integration
│       └── myFunction.integration.test.js
└── src
    └── myFunction.js

This structure allows you to keep your tests organized and easily maintainable. You can also use jest’s --testPathPattern option to run only specific tests or groups of tests.

By default, jest consider every file under __tests__ as test. Add the following to ignore those helper functions.

"jest": {
    ...
    "testPathIgnorePatterns": [
      "/__tests__/helpers/"
    ],