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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

Testing Microservice Architectures

The topics we have covered so far have gone beyond the scope of how to write tests. We have looked at a wide range of software design and development concerns, including containerization with Docker and database integration with PostgreSQL. This highlights the fact that writing good tests requires a thorough understanding of the architecture and technical dependencies of the application under test.

Alongside these software development concepts, we discussed the evolution of code in Chapter 7, Refactoring in Go. We learned some common refactoring techniques, and we compared monolithic applications with microservice architectures, which is a common evolution of Go web applications as they grow and become more mature.

We will continue our exploration of microservice architectures and refactoring from the previous chapter. As microservices are often owned and developed by different software teams, they are often changed without any central oversight...