GoConvey VS Testify

I have always liked to use the similar GoConvey tool for automatic test runs during development, but it has definitely started to “show its age” and since Go 1.20 it hasn’t been able to parse code coverage correctly. So, I decided to dive into making my own tool to replace it for me.

IIRC you can use http://goconvey.co/ just for the reports

For a generic usecase, do you see Go-convey adding any benefit over simple golang t.Run?

Testify simplifies writing unit tests in Go. The standard testing package is fine, but Testify adds assertions, mocking, and suite support, making tests more readable and maintainable.

I prefer to use the Go library testify, which significantly simplifies the code:

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.

Bonus: Testify

Testify: Popular framework with assertion functions and mock objects.

Testing: unit and integration tests using Testify and formatted test output using gotestsum

We’ve integrated the excellent testify library with its “assert” functionality to allow for smoother test implementation:

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.

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.

github.com/stretchr/testify