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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

Usages of fuzzing

As discussed previously, it is very difficult to write tests that cover all possible user scenarios and parameter value ranges. The number of test cases to write and maintain can become even more time-consuming than project work. In this section, we will explore Go’s fuzz testing capability, which can help us write tests that cover a wide variety of inputs.

Fuzz testing is a powerful technique that has been used to find bugs in a wide variety of software systems, including the Go standard library itself. It involves generating a wide variety of values and using them as input to the UUT. The generated values stress-test the UUT and help uncover bugs or unexpected behavior such as panics, memory leaks, or incorrect outputs.

Fuzz tests are automated, black-box tests that can be used to detect any potential functional or security issues in our system. They are usually run using a fuzz tool, which takes care of value generation, test execution, and error detection...