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bro watch files in directory and run tests for them (by marioidival)

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Professional lightweight testing mini-framework for Go. (by matryer)

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bro		is
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-	Mentions	7
25	Stars	1,717
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	2.7
over 7 years ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Go	Language	Go
-	License	MIT License

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The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know
6 projects | /r/golang | 13 Dec 2022
is there a way to write test in a sane way?
3 projects | /r/golang | 22 Mar 2022

I use https://github.com/matryer/is which is a simplified version of testify.
Testing frameworks, which to use?
5 projects | /r/golang | 28 Feb 2022

testify off steroids, all you ever need: is
What are the REST API reference projects that can be used as a guide in 2021?
10 projects | /r/golang | 24 Nov 2021

However your point is valid. Check matryer/is for unit test writing. DATA-DOG/go-sqlmock to test database interactions.
Beginner here, I'm wondering how ok it is to omit err return values as I am trying to approach things from test-driven perspective
2 projects | /r/golang | 25 Oct 2021

Even better, use https://github.com/matryer/is.
"is" testing framework?
2 projects | /r/golang | 17 Oct 2021

Probably they talking about https://github.com/matryer/is ?
fluentassert - a prototype of yet another assertion library
7 projects | /r/golang | 28 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bro and is you can also consider the following projects:

dbcleaner - Clean database for testing, inspired by database_cleaner for Ruby

Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library

baloo - Expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy in Go

verify - Extensible, type-safe, fluent assertion Go library.

wstest - go websocket client for unit testing of a websocket handler

GoAws - AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing

dsunit - Datastore Testibility

gnomock - Test your code without writing mocks with ephemeral Docker containers 📦 Setup popular services with just a couple lines of code ⏱️ No bash, no yaml, only code 💻

go-vcr - Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests

gotest.tools - A collection of packages to augment the go testing package and support common patterns.

goblin - Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework