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ginkgo
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Writing tests for a Kubernetes Operator
Ginkgo: a testing framework based on the concept of "Behavior Driven Development" (BDD)
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We moved our Cloud operations to a Kubernetes Operator
We were also able to leverage Ginkgo's parallel testing runtime to run our integration tests on multiple concurrent processes. This provided multiple benefits: we could run our entire integration test suite in under 10 minutes and also reuse the same suite to load test the operator in a production-like environment. Using these tests, we were able to identify hot spots in the code that needed further optimization and experimented with ways to save API calls to ease the load on our own Kubernetes API server while also staying under various AWS rate limits. It was only after running these tests over and over again that I felt confident enough to deploy the operator to our dev and prod clusters.
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Recommendations for Learning Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Go?
A bit off-topic, but i really like the ginkgo BDD framework
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Start test names with “should” (2020)
You obviously are not familiar with the third circle of golang continuous integration hell that is ginkgo+gomega:
https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/#adding-specs-to-a-suite
It’s actually worse than that example suggests. Stuff like Expect(“type safety”).ShouldBe(GreaterThan(13)) throws runtime errors.
The semantics of parallel test runs weren’t defined anywhere the last time I checked.
Anyway, you’ll be thinking back fondly to the days of TestShouldReplaceChildrenWhenUpdatingInstance because now you need to write nested function calls like:
Context(“instances”, func …)
Describe(“that are being updated”, …)
Expect(“should replace children”, …)
And to invoke that from the command line, you need to write a regex against whatever undocumented and unprinted string it internally concatenates together to uniquely describe the test.
Also, they dump color codes to stdout without checking that they are writing to a terminal, so there will be line noise all over whatever automated test logs you produce, or if you pipe stdout to a file.
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ginkgo integration with jira/elasticsearch/webex/slack
If you are using Ginkgo for your e2e, this library might of help.
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Testing frameworks, which to use?
https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/ offers a simple way to create tables with different scenarios useful to generate different test cases based on a file like a yml without to need to develop useless code. Maybe at start seems to be a little verbose but depends how you design the test case.
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Testza - A modern test framework with pretty output
What are people’s thoughts on testing frameworks? I’ve heard that most devs only use the testing package in the standard library and the testify package for assertions— I assume this is because Go is meant to be lightweight and scalable, and adding external dependencies basically goes against that. But I’ve also seen devs use packages like ginkgo to make tests more structured and readable. What do you guys think?
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What are your favorite packages to use?
Ginkgo Behavioural test framework
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Air – Live reload when developing with Go
If you write your tests with Ginkgo [0] its CLI can do this for you. It also has nice facilities to quickly disable a test or portion of a test by pretending an X to the test function name, or to focus a test (only run that test) by prepending an F. It’s pretty nice.
[0]: https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/
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Half a million lines of Go at The Khan Academy
The BDD testing framework Ginko [1] has some "weird" / unidiomatic patterns, yet it is very popular
https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo
pgx
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Setting up a Database Driver, Repository and Implementation of a transaction function for your Go App
Sometimes, backend developers tend to opt for an ORM library because it provides an abstraction between your app and the database and thus there is little or no need to write raw queries and migrations which is nice. However, if you want to get better at writing queries (SQL for example), you need to learn how to build your repositories without an ORM. To open a database handle, you can either do it directly from the database driver or do it from database/sql with the driver passed into it. I will be opening the connection with database/sql together with pgx which is a driver and toolkit for PostgreSQL. Walk with me.
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The DDD Hamburger for Go
The infrastructure layer contains the concrete implementation of the repository domain interface ActivityRepository in the struct DbActivityRepository. This repository implementation uses the Postgres driver pgx and plain SQL to store the activity in the database. It uses the database transaction from the context, since the transaction was initiated by the application service.
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Building RESTful API with Hexagonal Architecture in Go
For building the RESTful Point of Sale service API, I've considered and selected a combination of technologies that would work seamlessly together. For handling HTTP requests and responses, using the Gin HTTP web framework would make sense because I think it seems complete and popular among Go community too. To ensure data integrity and persistence, I'm using PostgreSQL database with pgx as the database driver, the reason I choose PostgreSQL because it is the most popular relational database to use in production and offers efficient Go integration. I'm also implementing caching using Redis with go-redis client library, which provides powerful in-memory data storage capabilities.
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Working with postgres in GO.
If you are willing to commit to working only with Postgres, I highly recommend pgx. Be sure you get the latest version github.com/jackc/pgx/v5. This gives you the full power of interacting with Postgres without going through an intermediate lowest-common-denominator library.
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How to Use Iris and PostgreSQL for Web Development
It uses pg package and pgx driver under the hood.
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Could I get a code review?
Starting off, is there any reason you're calling out to the CLI, instead of just using a Postgres driver like pgx? Shelling out to the command line should always be a last resort where possible as a software engineer.
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Why elixir over Golang
For maintaining state I use PostgreSQL. Driver: https://github.com/jackc/pgx (I use the pgxpools) Along with Sqlc for generating database models and allowing me to focus on just building queries in DBeaver. https://sqlc.dev/
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Make psql display settings on login
An example of what I'm looking for can be found here https://github.com/jackc/pgx/wiki/Getting-started-with-pgx-through-database-sql/c9f798b4d9a500fcf93931df2464af969d68f516
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Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std
Except pgx recommends using their native interface, not database/sql, for performance and extra features [0], so it's not that simple in practice.
[0]: https://github.com/jackc/pgx#choosing-between-the-pgx-and-da...
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Go Roadmap
pgx is “PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go”. Take a look at https://github.com/jackc/pgx
What are some alternatives?
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
sqlx - general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql
GoConvey - Go testing in the browser. Integrates with `go test`. Write behavioral tests in Go.
GORM - The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly
godog - Cucumber for golang
pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql
goblin - Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework
gomock - GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.
httpexpect - End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.
go-sql-driver/mysql - Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package
gocheck - Rich testing for the Go language
sqlc - Generate type-safe code from SQL