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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

To get the most out of this book

You will need a version of Go later than 1.19 installed on your computer. All code examples have been tested using Go 1.19 on macOS. After Chapter 6, running the BookSwap demo application will require you to have PostgreSQL installed or run it using Docker.

Software covered in the book

Operating system requirements

Go 1.19

Windows, macOS, or Linux

PostgreSQL 15

Windows, macOS, or Linux

Docker Desktop 4.17

Windows, macOS, or Linux

Postman 10 (optional)

Windows, macOS, or Linux

The GitHub repository describes the configuration required for running the BookSwap application locally, which includes setting some local environment variables.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

You will get the most out of reading this book if you are already familiar with the fundamentals and syntax of Go. If you are completely new to Go, you can complete a tour of Go here: https://go.dev/tour/list.