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Test-Driven Development in Go

By : Adelina Simion
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Test-Driven Development in Go

By: Adelina Simion

Overview of this book

Experienced developers understand the importance of designing a comprehensive testing strategy to ensure efficient shipping and maintaining services in production. This book shows you how to utilize test-driven development (TDD), a widely adopted industry practice, for testing your Go apps at different levels. You’ll also explore challenges faced in testing concurrent code, and learn how to leverage generics and write fuzz tests. The book begins by teaching you how to use TDD to tackle various problems, from simple mathematical functions to web apps. You’ll then learn how to structure and run your unit tests using Go’s standard testing library, and explore two popular testing frameworks, Testify and Ginkgo. You’ll also implement test suites using table-driven testing, a popular Go technique. As you advance, you’ll write and run behavior-driven development (BDD) tests using Ginkgo and Godog. Finally, you’ll explore the tricky aspects of implementing and testing TDD in production, such as refactoring your code and testing microservices architecture with contract testing implemented with Pact. All these techniques will be demonstrated using an example REST API, as well as smaller bespoke code examples. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to design and implement a comprehensive testing strategy for your Go applications and microservices architecture.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Big Picture
6
Part 2: Integration and End-to-End Testing with TDD
11
Part 3: Advanced Testing Techniques

Part 1: The Big Picture

This part begins our journey into the world of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and provides us with all the essentials we need to start using it for unit testing our code. We begin with an introduction to the principles and practices of TDD, including how it fits into Agile development. Then, we focus our attention on how to apply these practices to write Go unit tests, exploring the fundamentals of test writing and running in Go. Based on these essentials, we explore how to write isolated tests with mocks and simplify our assertions. We learn how to use the third-party open source assertion libraries, ginkgo and testify, which supplement Go’s standard testing library. Finally, we learn how to implement and leverage the popular technique of table-driven testing to easily write tests that cover a variety of scenarios, making it easy to cover multiple test scenarios and extend the scope of our tests. In this section, we also begin the implementation of our...