Gauge
Light weight cross-platform test automation (by getgauge)
go-vcr
Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests (by dnaeon)
| Gauge | go-vcr | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 | |
| 3,061 | 1,314 | |
| 0.5% | 0.8% | |
| 9.1 | 6.9 | |
| 17 days ago | 16 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | 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.
Gauge
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gauge.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-22.
- Ask HN: How do you promote your personal project in limited bugget?
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Python-Selenium-Action: Run Selenium with Python via Github Actions using Headless or Non-Headless browsers!
Selenium is cool but https://gauge.org/ really cuts down on the boilerplate and is a lot more lightweight, may want to give it a look too
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Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner
This actually reminds me a lot of Gauge from Thoughtworks: https://github.com/getgauge/gauge
It's typically paired with Taiko for test automation, but generally speaking it's a markdown to logical instruction engine.
I dig it, but also worth taking a look at what the Thoughtworks team has done especially around the VS Code tooling and language server work that they did to bring intellisense into their Markdown templates.
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Java Developer, What do you do?
Since the project also uses Postgres, Redis, and AMQP, we also write integration tests. A docker compose file is there to stack up the test suite, and before each test, the tables, the keys, and the queues are reset. We don't try to aim to test for all the cases but usually all the controllers are covered. I personally would prefer to write more test cases between multiple micro services (e2e?) using something like Gauge but these integration tests are kind of enough.
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A dilemma: What to do about integration testing for developers.
Gauge looks interesting, but reminds me heavily of BDD frameworks - it looks like it's an abstraction layer where instead of writing Gherkin/GWT, the tests are in their specific DSL that's Markdown based?
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9 Of The Best Java Testing Frameworks For 2021
Gauge is a Behavior Driven Java testing framework launched by ThoughtWorks.Inc. This is also one of the best Java Testing Frameworks, which allows software engineers to develop automated frameworks and speed up the software development procedure.
go-vcr
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-vcr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-11.
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Effortless HTTP Client Testing in Go
Now that you see the motivation behind VCR testing, let's dig deeper into how to implement it in Go using dnaeon/go-vcr.
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Testing calls to external APIs
Mocking the http client using recorded responses; for example using dnaeon/go-vcr
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How I write offline API tests in Go
For example I see go-vcr (note: not mine), but haven't taken time yet to evaluate it.
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go-vcr v3 has been released
I've finally found some spare time and managed to work on go-vcr, fixed some long standing issues, refactored things here and there and was able to get a new version of the package.
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What are you using for testing your IAC?
Terraform providers are tested this way (separate cloud account w/ create/destroy) paired with VCR to record and replay the HTTP requests.
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Go Package for testing HTTP interactions: github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr
Let me introduce to you github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr.
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best way to mock/unit test http.Client?
dnaeon/go-vcr
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Gauge and go-vcr you can also consider the following projects:
ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go
testfixtures - Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database
GoConvey - Go testing in the browser. Integrates with `go test`. Write behavioral tests in Go.
frisby - API testing framework inspired by frisby-js
godog - Cucumber for golang