Testing

Glasswork makes testing background jobs easy with dedicated test helpers and drivers.

Unit Testing Enqueuing

When testing services that enqueue jobs, use the MockQueueDriver. This allows you to verify that jobs are enqueued with the correct payload without actually sending them to SQS.

import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
import { JobService, MockQueueDriver } from 'glasswork';
import { sendWelcomeEmail } from '../jobs/send-welcome-email.job';

describe('UserService', () => {
  it('enqueues welcome email on registration', async () => {
    // Setup
    const driver = new MockQueueDriver();
    const jobService = new JobService(driver);
    const userService = new UserService(jobService);

    // Act
    await userService.register('Alice', 'alice@example.com');

    // Assert
    expect(driver.enqueued).toHaveLength(1);
    expect(driver.enqueued[0].message).toMatchObject({
      jobName: 'send-welcome-email',
      payload: {
        name: 'Alice',
        userId: expect.any(String),
      },
    });
  });
});

Testing Job Handlers

Since job handlers are just functions, you can test them directly by invoking the handler property with a mock context.

import { describe, it, expect, vi } from 'vitest';
import type { JobContext } from 'glasswork';
import { sendWelcomeEmail } from '../jobs/send-welcome-email.job';

describe('sendWelcomeEmail Job', () => {
  it('sends email via email service', async () => {
    // Mock services
    const emailService = { send: vi.fn() };

    // Create minimal context
    const context: JobContext = {
      services: { emailService },
      logger: { info: vi.fn(), warn: vi.fn(), error: vi.fn(), debug: vi.fn() },
      jobId: 'test-job',
      attemptNumber: 1,
      enqueuedAt: new Date(),
    };

    // Invoke handler
    await sendWelcomeEmail.handler(
      { userId: '123', name: 'Alice' },
      context
    );

    // Assert
    expect(emailService.send).toHaveBeenCalledWith('welcome', {
      to: '123',
      name: 'Alice',
    });
  });
});

Integration Testing Workers

Test the full worker lifecycle using bootstrapWorker and simulated SQS events.

import type { SQSEvent } from 'aws-lambda';
import { bootstrapWorker } from 'glasswork';
import { WorkerModule } from '../modules/worker.module';

it('processes SQS event', async () => {
  const handler = bootstrapWorker({
    module: WorkerModule,
  });

  const event: SQSEvent = {
    Records: [
      {
        messageId: 'msg-1',
        receiptHandle: 'receipt-1',
        body: JSON.stringify({
          jobName: 'send-welcome-email',
          payload: { userId: '123', name: 'Alice' },
        }),
        attributes: {
          ApproximateReceiveCount: '1',
          SentTimestamp: Date.now().toString(),
          SenderId: 'test',
          ApproximateFirstReceiveTimestamp: Date.now().toString(),
        },
        messageAttributes: {},
        md5OfBody: '',
        eventSource: 'aws:sqs',
        eventSourceARN: 'arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:123456789:test-queue',
        awsRegion: 'us-east-1',
      },
    ],
  };

  const result = await handler(event, {} as never, () => {});

  expect(result?.batchItemFailures).toHaveLength(0);
});

Test Helpers

assertJobEnqueued

Create a helper for common assertions:

function assertJobEnqueued(
  driver: MockQueueDriver,
  jobName: string,
  payload: unknown
) {
  const job = driver.enqueued.find(j => j.message.jobName === jobName);
  expect(job).toBeDefined();
  expect(job?.message.payload).toMatchObject(payload);
}

// Usage
assertJobEnqueued(driver, 'send-welcome-email', { userId: '123' });