How to Test Amazon SES Emails Using Pytest and Moto

In this post I will show you a very neat way to unit test your Amazon SES emails using Pytest and the awesome Moto library for mocking AWS services.

How I Define SES Emails in Application Code

I like to use a handy base class for preparing and sending SES emails within my application code. Here is a simple example:

How to create a 3 Stage Deployment Pipeline With Github Actions

In this post I will show you how to setup a nice 3 stage deployment pipeline that will lint and test your code before deploying to a specific stage, using Github Actions

I will be simulating a Python application for this post, so you should modify the Python related stuff according to your project.

🔧 Build And Test Workflow

This workflow will lint, type check, and test the project before deploying to any stage. Create a .github/workflows/build-and-test.yml file:

Python Transactional Tests Using SQL Alchemy, Pytest, and Factory Boy

Last Updated on November 26 2021

Knowing how to integrate SQLAlchemy for your automated tests can be a bit tricky. Even after reading several blog posts on how to implement transactional tests with SQLAlchemy 1.3 and Pytest, it took me a bit of time to make it all play nicely with Factory Boy.

In this post I will teach you how you that is achieved.

How to Debug a Chalice App in Vscode

In this post I will show you how you can create a debug configuration in Visual Studio Code that will allow you to debug a Chalice application locally.

Django: Adding Context Data to Class Based Views Using Properties

When using Class-Based Views in Django, we normally add additional context data to the view by implementing the get_context_data() method:

class MyDetailView(DetailView):

    def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
        context = super().get_context_data(*args, **kwargs)
        context['foo'] = 'bar'

        return context

This works well. But I am very fond of using another approach, so as to not pollute the get_context_data method. We can achieve this using properties: