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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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

Symbols

_test.go files

functions 41

A

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) 21

advantages 21, 22

disadvantages 22

Agile manifesto 5, 7

Agile methodology 4-6

values 5

Agile project methodology 27

Agile software delivery

cyclical stages 6, 7

anonymous functions 54

apex/log

reference link 222

APIs

packages as 33

applied concurrency examples

exploring 238, 239

Arrange-Act-Assert (AAA) pattern 13, 28

assertion frameworks

disadvantages 84

errors, asserting 86

testify, using 85

working with 84

assert package

contains assertions 85

equality assertions 85

nil assertions 85

subset assertions 85

asynchronous operations 249

automated refactoring 181, 182

automated tests 7

requirement types 9

system...