goblin vs dbcleaner

goblin

Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework (by franela)

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dbcleaner

Clean database for testing, inspired by database_cleaner for Ruby (by khaiql)

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goblin		dbcleaner
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-	Mentions	1
885	Stars	157
-0.2%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	1.8
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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The Big Unit Test Misunderstanding
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2022

It is not hard to isolate and stub a database the problem is you will not catch a lot of errors, e.g. writing a 40 char string into a VCHAR(10), DateTime conversations, ...
In Ruby on Rails it is quite common to use a real database in the unit tests. Even before containers came out and it is still fast (yes, less than 1 second).
In rails you use the same database instance for all the tests, so you do not have spin up a database instance for every case. Instead you use a database cleaner.
There also exists a JS implementation: https://github.com/khaiql/dbcleaner

What are some alternatives?

When comparing goblin and dbcleaner you can also consider the following projects:

ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go

go-carpet - Tool for show test coverage in terminal for Go source files

Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library

bro - bro watch files in directory and run tests for them

gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library

Gauge - Light weight cross-platform test automation

httpexpect - End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.

testfixtures - Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database

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

goc - A Comprehensive Coverage Testing System 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 💻