autogold
Automatically update your Go tests (by hexops)
go-testdeep
Extremely flexible golang deep comparison, extends the go testing package, tests HTTP APIs and provides tests suite (by maxatome)
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| autogold | go-testdeep | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 11 | |
| 273 | 418 | |
| 0.7% | - | |
| 4.7 | 7.4 | |
| 8 months ago | 7 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
autogold
Posts with mentions or reviews of autogold.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.
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TIL: panic(spew.Sdump(myVar))
I use autogold for my tests now, and I use the -update feature already twice. That's really handy.
- autogold v2.0.0 - automatically update your Go tests
- autogold - automatically update your Go tests
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Libraries you use most of your projects?
https://github.com/hexops/autogold - generate and update test result (go test -update .)
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Best/Easiest Rest Framework
this way, you can switch around framework easily without changing the business logic, and all business logic easily testable without thinking about serialization at all (just matching the input struct and output struct, for example using https://github.com/hexops/autogold)
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Take on a better unit test style
prefer these two tools: https://github.com/maxbrunsfeld/counterfeiter and https://github.com/hexops/autogold
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It's 2021: you shouldn't have to update Go tests manually (announcing autogold)
There is a small issue with string-pointers and inline-updating autogold.Want calls, can you have a look? https://github.com/hexops/autogold/issues/4
go-testdeep
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-testdeep.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-02.
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Working with JSON in Go: A Comprehensive Guide
And do not forget to use go-testdeep and its JSON operator to test JSON content: :)
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Libraries you use most of your projects?
TestDeep. I got pretty used to many of the matchers and they simplify my life now.
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Large repo switched to new go1.19 doc comments
To see the result on a large repository, I adapted the comments of go-testdeep to fully take advantage of these new features.
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reflect.DeepEqual return false for two identical maps of any
Check also go-testdeep → https://goplay.tools/snippet/KgoeGR1bIwT the full featured testing framework... (not related to go-test/deep)
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Patterns for unit testing in Go?
Check go-testdeep using its operators, it is very easy to do table driven tests, see https://goplay.space/#Z91D72aH3Sc for an example
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go-testdeep v1.11.0 released with many new features and some fixes
See https://github.com/maxatome/go-testdeep/releases/tag/v1.11.0 for changes.
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go-testdeep v1.10.0 then v1.10.1 released with many new features!
the 1.10.0 release with many new features including a new SuperSliceOf operator (so now 62 operators!), a relaxed JSON parser, the possibility to ignore unexported struct fields, to target a specific nested field (even private), the enhancement of tdhttp HTTP API tester to check cookies, to use multipart/form-data bodies, and many other magic things…
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Do you prefer go-convey over golang's t.Run?
And of course go-testdeep which colorizes the error reports with simple but accurate diff.
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go-testdeep v1.9.1 released with many new features!
Links: - Github — https://github.com/maxatome/go-testdeep - Home — https://go-testdeep.zetta.rocks/ - Releases — https://github.com/maxatome/go-testdeep/releases - tdhttp the API tester — https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/maxatome/go-testdeep/helpers/tdhttp - tdsuite the testing suite — https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/maxatome/go-testdeep/helpers/tdsuite
What are some alternatives?
When comparing autogold and go-testdeep you can also consider the following projects:
testeach - Simple test setup/teardown for Go tests
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
dockertest - Write better integration tests! Dockertest helps you boot up ephermal docker images for your Go tests with minimal work.
go-mutesting - Mutation testing for Go source code
gomodifytags - Go tool to modify struct field tags
go-cmp - Package for comparing Go values in tests
v8go - Execute JavaScript from Go
endly - End to end functional test and automation framework
valast - Convert Go values to their AST
GoConvey - Go testing in the browser. Integrates with `go test`. Write behavioral tests in Go.
chi - lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services
frisby - API testing framework inspired by frisby-js