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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “The Go toolchain provides the single go test command for running all the tests that we have defined.”

A block of code is set as follows:

func(e *Engine) Add(x, y float64) float64{
  return x + y
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

func TestAdd(t *testing.T) {
  e := calculator.Engine{} 
  x, y := 2.5,3.5 
  want := 6.0  
  got := e.Add(x,y) 
  if got != want { 
  t.Errorf("Add(%.2f,%.2f) incorrect, got: %.2f, want: %.2f", x, y, got, want) 
  } 
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ go test -run TestDivide ./chapter04/table -v

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “Select System info from the Administration panel.”

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