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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

Summary

In this chapter, we explored how to identify edge cases and write test suites that cover multiple conditions. We began with how to identify edge cases for systems with input parameters and external services, revising Go’s approach to explicit error handling. Then, we learned how to implement table-driven testing. This popular technique allows us to test multiple scenarios with a minimal amount of boilerplate code. It also allows running test cases in parallel, enabling us to make optimizations for the running of test cases as well. Finally, we introduced our new use case—the BookSwap web application. This example application will be the focus of the next few chapters, where we will learn how to test one of Go’s most popular use cases: building web applications.

In Chapter 5, Performing Integration Testing, we will begin to consider how to use TDD for testing end-to-end (E2E) applications, including database testing. We will also learn how to use Docker...