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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 – the BookSwap application

One of the most popular use cases of Go is for building web applications. Therefore, it is important to know how to build and test web applications. We will learn how to build our first use case web application: the BookSwap application. We will explore and test the BookSwap application in this and the following chapters.

This simple application allows users to sign up and register which books they have available. Other users can sign up for the application and view other users’ available books. They can then request to borrow a book from another user. The BookSwap application then generates an order and sends it to the posting service for wrapping and shipping.

Figure 4.8 depicts an overview of the BookSwap application:

Figure 4.8 – Overview of the book swap web application

The BookSwap web application has some simple components:

  • The user interacts with the UserService service endpoints...