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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

Refactoring in Go

We have explored concepts and techniques for tests across the entire testing pyramid. We have applied these concepts while building our main project of study, the BookSwap application. This web application is currently verified by the following:

  • Unit tests implemented using the Go standard library
  • Integration tests implemented using httptest
  • End-to-end tests implemented using godog

To demonstrate these techniques in a realistic example, we have extended the functionality of the BookSwap application with a variety of components. In Chapter 6, End-To-End Testing the BookSwap Web Application, we extended the project by adding the ability to run it in Docker and use a PostgreSQL database to save its data.

All of these changes have added complexity to our BookSwap application, which now relies on the following:

  • Two libraries for database migration and operations – golang-migrate and gorm
  • Three different types of files –...