go-cmp VS Testify

Compare go-cmp vs Testify and see what are their differences.

go-cmp

Package for comparing Go values in tests (by google)

Testify

A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library (by stretchr)
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go-cmp Testify
7 64
3,935 21,824
1.3% 1.7%
3.7 8.6
3 months ago 7 days ago
Go Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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go-cmp

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-cmp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-03.

Testify

Posts with mentions or reviews of Testify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-01.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-cmp and Testify you can also consider the following projects:

ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go

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

gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library

gomock - GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.

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

gocheck - Rich testing for the Go language

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

godog - Cucumber for golang

goblin - Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework

go-testdeep - Extremely flexible golang deep comparison, extends the go testing package, tests HTTP APIs and provides tests suite

decimal - Arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal numbers in go