gomock
GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language. (by golang)
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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. (by oxequa)
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| gomock | realize | |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | - | |
| 9,010 | 4,436 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 2.5 | 0.0 | |
| 10 months ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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 2023-06-28.
- Maintainership of Go’s official gomock repo has been transferred to Uber.
- Uber Now Maintains Gomock
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Google Stopped Maintaining GoMock
The commit mentions this rather sad thread: https://github.com/golang/mock/pull/627#issuecomment-1605169...
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Tools besides Go for a newbie
IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here
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When to mock and what to mock in a Web API?
Normally I like to generate everything with Mockgen and test it using table driven test.
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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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Comprehensive Guide to Testing in Go
gomock can also be great for testing when used sparingly. Mocking out one or two calls is great, anymore than that and it becomes exponentially harder to reason about
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Google's internal Go style guide
Where we do use mocks, we primarily use GoMock.
realize
Posts with mentions or reviews of realize.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning realize yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gomock and realize you can also consider the following projects:
mockery - A mock code autogenerator for Go
chromedp - A faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
selenoid - Selenium Hub successor running browsers within containers. Scalable, immutable, self hosted Selenium-Grid on any platform with single binary.
pgx - PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go
go-fuzz - Randomized testing for Go
sqlx - general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql
cdp - Package cdp provides type-safe bindings for the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), written in the Go programming language.
counterfeiter - A tool for generating self-contained, type-safe test doubles in go
go-sqlmock - Sql mock driver for golang to test database interactions
monkey - Monkey patching in Go
minimock - Powerful mock generation tool for Go programming language