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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 spent our efforts extending the BookSwap application. We began by discussing what a typical user journey for a user will be, added a PostgreSQL database to it, and configured it to run with Docker. Then, we explored the Godog testing library, which makes it easy to write BDD-style tests, as well as E2E tests. We made use of Godog to verify that users are able to sign up on the BookSwap application, making use of the code generation abilities of Godog. Finally, we briefly discussed the challenges of creating database start positions and assertions directly at the database level.

In Chapter 7, Refactoring in Go, we will discuss tools and techniques for code refactoring and how to break up monoliths into multiple services. This will give us a realistic understanding of how to rely on our tests to verify that refactoring does not cause errors or break existing functionality.