Chalice is a Python serverless microframework for AWS that enables you to quickly create and deploy applications that use Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. In this blog post, I discuss how to create unit tests for Chalice. I’ll use Chalice local mode to execute these tests without provisioning API Gateway and Lambda resources.

Creating a new project

Let’s begin by creating a new Chalice project using the chalice command line.

Note: You might want to create a virtual environment to complete the tasks in this post.