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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

Challenges of Testing Concurrent Code

In the previous chapters, we covered all of the essentials knowledge that TDD practitioners will need to test their applications. We learned how to unit test our code in the development phase, how to integration test our larger components, and how to end-to-end test our entire services. These are essential building blocks for building and running any software project. The test suite allows us to verify that our application is functioning according to the client’s requirements.

As the system grows and matures, developers then must inevitably consider how to change and evolve their code, ensuring that their system remains performant and scalable. As discussed in Chapter 7, Refactoring in Go, there are some common refactoring techniques that we can use to make the code change process easier. One common system refactoring technique is breaking up monolithic applications and replacing them with microservice architectures. In Chapter 8, Testing...