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Test-Driven Development in Go

By : Adelina Simion
Book Image

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

Breaking up the BookSwap monolith

The discussion in this chapter has been centered around discussing microservice architectures, as distributed systems have become the standard and you will most likely have to work on this kind of system in the near future. However, the BookSwap application is still a monolithic application.

Based on some of the practices we discussed in Chapter 7, Refactoring in Go, we can discuss how we might go splitting up the BookSwap monolith. Figure 8.7 depicts some of the microservices that we could create:

Figure 8.7 – The distributed BookSwap system

The distributed BookSwap system has microservices with well-defined responsibilities:

  • SwapService is the entry point to the system and is responsible for handling and routing all the incoming user requests of the system. It has direct dependencies on BookService and UserService, which own the data that SwapService relies on.
  • UserService is responsible for all the...