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Summary

Enhanced CdkTestHelper with overload methods that accept custom IStackProps implementations, enabling flexible testing scenarios for real-world CDK stacks with custom properties.

Changes Made

✨ New Overload Methods

  • CdkTestHelper.CreateTestStack(string stackName, IStackProps stackProps)

    • Creates CDK app and stack with custom stack properties
    • Returns both app and stack for advanced scenarios
  • CdkTestHelper.CreateTestStackMinimal(string stackName, IStackProps stackProps)

    • Creates stack with custom properties (app created internally)
    • Returns only the stack for simplified usage

🧪 Comprehensive Test Coverage

Added three new test methods:

  1. CdkTestHelper_ShouldCreateStackWithCustomStackProps

    • Tests custom environment settings (account, region)
    • Verifies custom tags functionality
  2. CdkTestHelper_ShouldCreateMinimalStackWithCustomStackProps

    • Tests minimal stack creation with custom props
    • Verifies custom description and environment
  3. CdkTestHelper_ShouldWorkWithRealWorldCustomStackProps

    • End-to-end integration test
    • Simulates real-world usage pattern (like LightsaberStackProps)
    • Validates complete workflow: custom stack → construct creation → template generation

Real-World Usage

This enhancement directly addresses the need to test CDK stacks with custom properties:

// Before: Manual app/stack creation
var app = new App();
var customProps = new LightsaberStackProps { /* custom properties */ };
var stack = new InfraStack(app, "test-stack", customProps);
var template = Template.FromStack(stack);

// After: Using enhanced CdkTestHelper
var customProps = new LightsaberStackProps { /* custom properties */ };
var stack = CdkTestHelper.CreateTestStackMinimal("test-stack", customProps);
var template = Template.FromStack(stack);

Benefits

Flexible Configuration: Supports any IStackProps implementation
Real-World Ready: Works with custom stack props like LightsaberStackProps
Reduces Boilerplate: Eliminates manual app creation while supporting complex scenarios
Backward Compatible: All existing code continues to work unchanged
Well Tested: Comprehensive test coverage including integration scenarios

Test Plan

  • New overload methods work with custom IStackProps
  • Custom environment settings (account, region) are respected
  • Custom tags and descriptions are applied correctly
  • End-to-end workflow works (stack → construct → template)
  • All existing tests continue to pass
  • Backward compatibility maintained

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## Summary
- Added overload methods to support custom IStackProps implementations
- Enhanced testing flexibility for real-world scenarios with custom stack properties
- Added comprehensive test coverage for new overload methods

## Changes Made

### ✨ New Features
- **CdkTestHelper.CreateTestStack(string, IStackProps)**: Creates test stack with custom props
- **CdkTestHelper.CreateTestStackMinimal(string, IStackProps)**: Creates minimal test stack with custom props

### 🧪 Test Coverage
- Added tests for custom environment settings (account, region)
- Added tests for custom tags and descriptions
- Added real-world integration test simulating LightsaberStackProps usage pattern

## Benefits
- **Flexible Stack Configuration**: Supports any IStackProps implementation
- **Real-World Usage**: Enables testing with custom stack props like LightsaberStackProps
- **Maintains Simplicity**: Reduces boilerplate while supporting complex scenarios
- **Backward Compatible**: Existing code continues to work unchanged

## Usage Example
```csharp
var customProps = new LightsaberStackProps
{
    Env = env,
    Context = context,
    Tags = tags
};

var stack = CdkTestHelper.CreateTestStackMinimal("test-stack", customProps);
var template = Template.FromStack(stack);
```

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull Request Overview

Enhances CdkTestHelper by adding overloads that accept custom IStackProps, enabling flexible testing with real-world CDK stack configurations, and adds comprehensive tests for these new methods.

  • Introduces CreateTestStack(string, IStackProps) and CreateTestStackMinimal(string, IStackProps) overloads.
  • Adds three new test cases verifying custom environment, tags, description, and end-to-end workflow.
  • Maintains backward compatibility and reduces boilerplate for stack creation in tests.

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File Description
test/LayeredCraft.Cdk.Constructs.Tests/Testing/TestingHelpersTests.cs Added tests for custom stack props overloads and real-world integration scenario
src/LayeredCraft.Cdk.Constructs/Testing/CdkTestHelper.cs Added CreateTestStack and CreateTestStackMinimal overloads with XML docs
Comments suppressed due to low confidence (3)

test/LayeredCraft.Cdk.Constructs.Tests/Testing/TestingHelpersTests.cs:229

  • Consider adding assertions to verify that the custom tags passed via stackProps.Tags are applied to the stack (e.g., Environment and Project tags).
        stack.Region.Should().Be("eu-west-1");

test/LayeredCraft.Cdk.Constructs.Tests/Testing/TestingHelpersTests.cs:250

  • Add an assertion to verify that stack.Description matches the provided custom Description in stackProps.
        stack.Region.Should().Be("ap-southeast-2");

test/LayeredCraft.Cdk.Constructs.Tests/Testing/TestingHelpersTests.cs:280

  • Add assertions to verify that the custom tags and Description from customProps are applied on the stack before creating constructs.
        stack.Region.Should().Be("us-west-2");

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ncipollina merged commit e1738f9 into main Jul 3, 2025
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ncipollina deleted the feature/add-custom-stackprops-overloads branch July 3, 2025 20:22
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