go-vcr VS testfixtures

Mocking the http client using recorded responses; for example using dnaeon/go-vcr

For example I see go-vcr (note: not mine), but haven't taken time yet to evaluate it.

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.

Terraform providers are tested this way (separate cloud account w/ create/destroy) paired with VCR to record and replay the HTTP requests.

Let me introduce to you github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr.

dnaeon/go-vcr

I'm the author of https://github.com/go-testfixtures/testfixtures, a library written to make it easier to write tests with a real database and test data. You might want to use it together with docker-compose, for example.

To solve the problem we will use testfixtures. Create a folders fixtures и fixtures/storage and put a file users.yaml inside:

A lot of good suggestions here, I would also take a look at go-testfixtures which allows you to create some simple yaml-based fixture data to use with unit testing. It's quick and easy, but yes can get unwieldy the more you add.

I built an alternative to Make written in Go that is simpler to use and cross-platform: https://taskfile.dev/

Also, a library to write tests with databases for Go: https://github.com/go-testfixtures/testfixtures