be
The Go test helper for minimalists (by earthboundkid)
go-testdeep
Extremely flexible golang deep comparison, extends the go testing package, tests HTTP APIs and provides tests suite (by maxatome)
| be | go-testdeep | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 11 | |
| 90 | 418 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.5 | 7.4 | |
| 7 months ago | 19 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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.
be
Posts with mentions or reviews of be.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-16.
- New version of minimal test helper "be" with golden file support
- What libraries are missing?
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The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know
For testing, use be
- Libraries you use most of your projects?
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Have you used generics?
I made a package like that: https://github.com/carlmjohnson/be. It’s probably my most frequent use of generics.
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alecthomas/assert: A minimalist type-safe drop-in replacement for testify/require
I spent the last week working on one of these: https://github.com/carlmjohnson/be. Some initial thoughts I have are that the error messages basically don’t matter because if the test fails you’re going to dig into the line where the failure happens anyway.
- Minimalist generic testing helper for Go 1.18+
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 be and go-testdeep you can also consider the following projects:
graph - A library for creating generic graph data structures and modifying, analyzing, and visualizing them.
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
scan - Scan provides the ability to to scan sql rows directly to any defined structure.
go-mutesting - Mutation testing for Go source code
GoAws - AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing
go-cmp - Package for comparing Go values in tests
assert - A simple assertion library using Go generics
endly - End to end functional test and automation framework
requests - HTTP requests for Gophers
GoConvey - Go testing in the browser. Integrates with `go test`. Write behavioral tests in Go.
gonum - Gonum is a set of numeric libraries for the Go programming language. It contains libraries for matrices, statistics, optimization, and more
frisby - API testing framework inspired by frisby-js