assert
:exclamation:Basic Assertion Library used along side native go testing, with building blocks for custom assertions (by go-playground)
cupaloy
Simple Go snapshot testing (by bradleyjkemp)
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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.
assert
Posts with mentions or reviews of assert.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-28.
cupaloy
Posts with mentions or reviews of cupaloy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-23.
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Comprehensive Guide to Testing in Go
This article leaves out snapshot testing. It’s not really relevant in a backend application, but I find it very useful in user or customer facing CLIs to ensure you don’t incidentally change command output or formatting. bradleyjkemp/cupaloy has served me pretty well.
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Snapshot testing in Golang
Go Snaps used Jest Snapshoting and Cupaloy as inspiration.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing assert and cupaloy you can also consider the following projects:
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
endly - End to end functional test and automation framework
godog - Cucumber for golang
gogiven - gogiven - BDD testing framework for go that generates readable output directly from source code
gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library
Hamcrest - Hamcrest matchers for the Go programming language
GoAws - AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing
GoConvey - Go testing in the browser. Integrates with `go test`. Write behavioral tests in Go.
go-carpet - Tool for show test coverage in terminal for Go source files
go-mutesting - Mutation testing for Go source code