gomock
GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language. (by golang)
minimock
Powerful mock generation tool for Go programming language (by gojuno)
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| gomock | minimock | |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | 2 | |
| 8,653 | 489 | |
| 2.4% | 2.5% | |
| 3.7 | 0.0 | |
| 29 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gomock
Posts with mentions or reviews of gomock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-06.
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Is gomock still maintained and recommended?
Looking at gomock's commit history, it seems like there hasn't been much activity on the project in a couple of years. I'm wondering if this is the case of software being mostly done and just in maintenance mode, or if gomock is falling behind. The reason I fear for the latter is there are still issues being opened up that don't seem to be engaged very much.
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Want to know if this is a valid approach
Yeah, that would work just fine. Nevertheless, as your business logic gets more complicated, you will want to test more scenarios and mocks will get complicated fast. In these cases tools like gomock really shine and make your life easier. I understand that this is a just-for-fun project, but it's never too early to experiment with a popular solution, especially if you plan on using Go professionally in the future.
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Go API Project Set-Up
Unit tests are leveraged to test individual units of code. As such it is not recommended for a developer to scaffold entire dependencies for the sake of testing a single object. Due to the way Go's specific implementations work, I've learned over time to declare interfaces for a lot of the structs that I use in Go. Interfaces not only define a contract for which struct-based implementations should adhere, but they also provide a mechanism for which struct methods can be mocked. While I've experimented with the mock package in testify, I've come to prefer the mock functionality which is provided by mockgen.
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Google's internal Go style guide
Where we do use mocks, we primarily use GoMock.
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How do you write/generate mocks for testing?
Currently migrating from moq to https://github.com/golang/mock
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golang unit testing
I use gomock or mockery for mocking the interfaces and testify for evaluating tests
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How we wrote Tarantool Kubernetes Operator
As every software, the operator needs to be tested. In our case, we use two types of tests: Unit and E2E. For testing, usually mock code generation is used (for example, via golang/mock). We didn't like this option, so we decided to use Testify's mock module that allows to mock required function interfaces using the reflection API—the interfaces used to configure Tarantool.
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how to mock DBs
In all other layers, my repositories are mocked using https://github.com/golang/mock
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How do you decide you are gonna use interface?
If you don't know how to mock databases, checkout some tutorials on it, it's a big topic, and I can't give you all the details on it. Checkout these repositories, they are used for mocking in golang https://github.com/golang/mock, https://github.com/stretchr/testify
minimock
Posts with mentions or reviews of minimock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-21.
- How do you write/generate mocks for testing?
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How do you control behaviour in mocked interface ?
In our company projects we use https://github.com/gojuno/minimock for units
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gomock and minimock you can also consider the following projects:
mockery - A mock code autogenerator for Golang
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
pgx - PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go
sqlx - general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql
monkey - Monkey patching in Go
counterfeiter - A tool for generating self-contained, type-safe test doubles in go
go-sqlmock - Sql mock driver for golang to test database interactions
zerolog - Zero Allocation JSON Logger
gock - HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in Go ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽
moq - Interface mocking tool for go generate
realize - Realize is the #1 Golang Task Runner which enhance your workflow by automating the most common tasks and using the best performing Golang live reloading.
wire - Compile-time Dependency Injection for Go