goblin vs httpexpect

goblin

Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework (by franela)

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httpexpect

End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go. (by gavv)

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goblin		httpexpect
	Project
-	Mentions	4
885	Stars	2,465
-0.2%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.5
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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goblin

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

httpexpect

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FLaNK Stack Weekly for 07August2023
27 projects | dev.to | 7 Aug 2023
Best packages?
11 projects | /r/golang | 16 Oct 2022

httpexpect for testing HTTP services. Works great with both RESTful and GraphQL.
Gostman: Postman like inside Go testing
7 projects | /r/golang | 26 Nov 2021

I use this library: https://github.com/gavv/httpexpect
Hacktoberfest: 69 Beginner-Friendly Projects You Can Contribute To
67 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020

https://github.com/gavv/httpexpect End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.

What are some alternatives?

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

ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go

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

chromedp - A faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol.

gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library

gock - HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in Go ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽

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

frisby - API testing framework inspired by frisby-js

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

selenoid - Selenium Hub successor running browsers within containers. Scalable, immutable, self hosted Selenium-Grid on any platform with single binary.

wstest - go websocket client for unit testing of a websocket handler

baloo - Expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy in Go