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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how to test microservice architectures. Having focused on functional testing in previous chapters, we started by exploring non-functional testing. Then, we took a closer look at performance testing, one particularly important type of non-functional testing. Then, we explored the complexities that microservice architectures bring to the development process and learned how contract testing can help with the verification of API integrations.

We learned how to use the Pact tools to write contract tests using the same techniques and processes that developers use for unit testing. Finally, we explored how we might split up the monolithic BookSwap application, including which services, endpoints, and contract tests we would write.

In Chapter 9, Challenges of Testing Concurrent Code, we will tackle the complex topic of concurrency in Go. We will learn the fundamentals of concurrency in Go and then explore the testing challenges that concurrency introduces...