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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

Chapter 5, Performing Integration Testing

  1. Integration tests cover multiple units of the system, ensuring that they work well together. End-to-end tests replicate user behavior on the system as a whole.
  2. BDD is a branch of TDD that focuses on writing human-readable tests and involve a variety of stakeholders from across the business. The most important part of BDD is establishing a common vocabulary that is shared across the business.
  3. No, it is considered an anti-pattern to mock databases. They are complex systems that are difficult to mock and replicate. In general, tests should use the same database as in production.
  4. A container is a unit of software and all its dependencies, specified by a container image. Docker Engine starts up and manages containers on top of the operating system.