goblin
Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework (by franela)
Testify
A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library (by stretchr)
| goblin | Testify | |
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| - | 72 | |
| 889 | 24,583 | |
| 0.0% | 1.1% | |
| 0.0 | 8.1 | |
| over 2 years ago | 3 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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goblin
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Testify
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From Vibe Coder to AI-Assisted Architect
I prefer to use the Go library testify, which significantly simplifies the code:
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Building and Deploying a New API (Part 1)
nil is returned initially, as we're creating user_test.go and using Testify to create tests as we shape the behavior of PostUser. We don't have a DB wired up yet, so the responses will simply be hard-coded structs of what we expect the API to respond with for now to pass the tests.
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Top 5 Go Libraries Every Backend Developer Should Know
Bonus: Testify
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TypeScript vs Go: Choosing Your Backend Language
Testify: Popular framework with assertion functions and mock objects.
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Building a RESTful API with Go Fiber: An Express-Inspired Boilerplate
Testing: unit and integration tests using Testify and formatted test output using gotestsum
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Technical Deep Dive: How We Built the Pizza CLI Using Go and Cobra
We’ve integrated the excellent testify library with its “assert” functionality to allow for smoother test implementation:
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Full Introduction to Golang with Test-Driven Development
This article is too basic and does not introduce anything you'd encounter in a typical Go project. If you want introduction to Go testing I recommend just reading the official docs https://pkg.go.dev/testing and understanding how to write table driven tests - https://go.dev/wiki/TableDrivenTests.
Going beyond what's built in, get familiar with https://github.com/stretchr/testify as that's used a lot.
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Why I don't use a third-party assertion library in Go unit tests
Of course, as soon as people saw this, the third-party assertion helper libraries started appearing. The most popular one seems to be testify (although I've never used it). Personally, I thought that the explicit check would be good enough for me, but it's true that after writing a bunch of tests, the boilerplate does seem unnecessarily verbose.
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What 3rd-party libraries do you use often/all the time?
github.com/stretchr/testify
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Testing calls to Daily's REST API in Go
I then verify that there are no issues with writing the body with require.NoError() from the testify toolkit. This will ensure the test fails if something happens to go wrong at this point.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing goblin and Testify you can also consider the following projects:
ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go
gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library
go-carpet - Tool for show test coverage in terminal for Go source files
gotest.tools - A collection of packages to augment the go testing package and support common patterns.