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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

Contract testing

As discussed in Chapter 7, Refactoring in Go, microservice architectures have many advantages over monolithic applications: the ability to scale system components independently, smaller code bases that are easier to maintain, and a system that is less prone to outages. However, the development and testing of working processes change when organizations adopt microservice architectures. This also brings challenges, alongside the vast benefits of microservice architectures.

Figure 8.4 depicts the three types of complexity that microservice architectures bring:

Figure 8.4 – The complexities of microservice architectures

Microservice architectures add complexity to every part of the development process:

  1. Development complexity: The source code of each microservice is often contained in its own separate code base or repository. This leads to complexity in the development process due to the following components:
    1. Service design must...