dbcleaner VS gomega

Compare dbcleaner vs gomega and see what are their differences.

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dbcleaner gomega
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157 2,072
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1.8 8.2
over 2 years ago 15 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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dbcleaner

Posts with mentions or reviews of dbcleaner. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • The Big Unit Test Misunderstanding
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2022
    It is not hard to isolate and stub a database the problem is you will not catch a lot of errors, e.g. writing a 40 char string into a VCHAR(10), DateTime conversations, ...

    In Ruby on Rails it is quite common to use a real database in the unit tests. Even before containers came out and it is still fast (yes, less than 1 second).

    In rails you use the same database instance for all the tests, so you do not have spin up a database instance for every case. Instead you use a database cleaner.

    There also exists a JS implementation: https://github.com/khaiql/dbcleaner

gomega

Posts with mentions or reviews of gomega. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-07.
  • Writing tests for a Kubernetes Operator
    3 projects | dev.to | 7 Oct 2023
    Gomega: is a test assertion library, a vital dependency on Ginkgo.
  • Quick tip: Easy test assertions with Go generics
    1 project | /r/golang | 3 Apr 2022
  • Learning Go by examples: part 6 - Create a gRPC app in Go
    7 projects | dev.to | 18 Aug 2021
    Gomega is a Go library that allows you to make assertions. In our example, we check if what we got is null, not null, or equal to an exact value, but the gomega library is much richer than that.
  • Tips to prevent adoption of your API
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2021
    Depends on the API and how much testing you need. You want to test your code, not the API's availability or correctness.

    But it can be as easy as using a fake http library and mocking the responses, or using a httptest server: https://onsi.github.io/gomega/#ghttp-testing-http-clients

    If the API is complicated and you have to write your own fake server, that might not make sense for small projects.

  • fluentassert - a prototype of yet another assertion library
    7 projects | /r/golang | 28 Mar 2021
  • Go generics beyond the playground
    6 projects | dev.to | 25 Mar 2021
    If we do the count, we gather that subtest appear to solve five out of the six problems we identified with the assert library. At this point though, it's important to note that at the time when the assert package was designed, the sub-test feature in Go did not yet exist. Therefore it would have been impossible for that library to embed it into it's design. This is also true for when Gomega and Ginko where designed. If these test frameworks where created now, then most likely some parts of their design would have been done differently. What I am trying to say is that with even the slightest change in the Go language and standard library, completely new ways of designing programs become possible. Especially for new packages without any legacy use-cases to consider. And this brings us to generics.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dbcleaner and gomega you can also consider the following projects:

go-carpet - Tool for show test coverage in terminal for Go source files

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

bro - bro watch files in directory and run tests for them

GoConvey - Go testing in the browser. Integrates with `go test`. Write behavioral tests in Go.

Gauge - Light weight cross-platform test automation

assert - :exclamation:Basic Assertion Library used along side native go testing, with building blocks for custom assertions

goblin - Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework

godog - Cucumber for golang

testfixtures - Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database

goc - A Comprehensive Coverage Testing System for The Go Programming Language

gocheck - Rich testing for the Go language