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Test-Driven Development in Go

Test-Driven Development in Go

By : Adelina Simion
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Test-Driven Development in Go

Test-Driven Development in Go

4.9 (16)
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)
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Part 1: The Big Picture
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Part 2: Integration and End-to-End Testing with TDD
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Part 3: Advanced Testing Techniques

Mocking and Assertion Frameworks

In the previous chapter, we explored the fundamentals of writing tests in Go. We explored the importance of packages, the organization of test files alongside source code, and how to use Go’s testing package to write tests and benchmarks.

We demonstrated the concepts and fundamentals of writing tests in Go with code samples from the Calculator use case. The simple examples we have looked at so far have not included any external dependencies, which can make test setup and verification much more complex.

In this chapter, we will begin to look at how we can isolate the unit under test from its dependencies, keeping testing and assertions as simple and fast as possible. The easiest way to achieve this in Go is by leveraging the power of interfaces.

We will expand upon the Calculator example by introducing dependencies to our main components. Then, we will learn how to generate mocks for these dependencies of the unit under test (UUT), enabling...

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