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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

Use case – testing concurrency in the BookSwap application

The last section of this chapter is dedicated to the detection of concurrency issues in the BookSwap web application. We will make use of Go’s race detector, alongside the testing strategies we have learned so far, to see what issues we can discover in the BookSwap application.

You might be wondering why we would worry about the concurrency aspects of the BookSwap application, since we have not used any locks, channels, or goroutines in the code base we have seen so far. Go’s net/http library uses goroutines under the hood to serve HTTP requests, so the application can still have concurrency issues, even though it does not explicitly create its own goroutines and channels. This effect will be further amplified once the BookSwap application gets converted from a monolithic application to running in the microservice architecture we discussed in Chapter 8, Testing Microservice Architectures.

We already...