go-vcr vs Gauge

go-vcr

Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests (by dnaeon)

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Light weight cross-platform test automation (by getgauge)

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go-vcr		Gauge
	Project
6	Mentions	6
1,013	Stars	2,841
-	Growth	0.5%
0.0	Activity	3.2
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Go	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Apache License 2.0

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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 2022-12-09.

Testing calls to external APIs
3 projects | /r/golang | 9 Dec 2022

Mocking the http client using recorded responses; for example using dnaeon/go-vcr
How I write offline API tests in Go
2 projects | /r/golang | 7 Nov 2022

For example I see go-vcr (note: not mine), but haven't taken time yet to evaluate it.
go-vcr v3 has been released
2 projects | /r/golang | 19 Aug 2022

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.
What are you using for testing your IAC?
3 projects | /r/devops | 1 Dec 2021

Terraform providers are tested this way (separate cloud account w/ create/destroy) paired with VCR to record and replay the HTTP requests.
Go Package for testing HTTP interactions: github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr
2 projects | dev.to | 8 May 2021

Let me introduce to you github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr.
best way to mock/unit test http.Client?
4 projects | /r/golang | 15 Mar 2021

dnaeon/go-vcr

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 2023-05-03.

Python-Selenium-Action: Run Selenium with Python via Github Actions using Headless or Non-Headless browsers!
2 projects | /r/Python | 3 May 2023

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
Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2023

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.
9 Of The Best Java Testing Frameworks For 2021
3 projects | dev.to | 14 May 2021

Easily create your plugin using the open-source Gauge API.

3 projects | dev.to | 14 May 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.