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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?
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
godog - Cucumber for golang
gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library
GoAws - AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing
go-carpet - Tool for show test coverage in terminal for Go source files
endly - End to end functional test and automation framework
gogiven - gogiven - BDD testing framework for go that generates readable output directly from source code
go-mutesting - Mutation testing for Go source code
testfixtures - Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database
dsunit - Datastore Testibility
Hamcrest - Hamcrest matchers for the Go programming language
gnomock - Test your code without writing mocks with ephemeral Docker containers 📦 Setup popular services with just a couple lines of code ⏱️ No bash, no yaml, only code 💻