gotest.tools
A collection of packages to augment the go testing package and support common patterns. (by gotestyourself)
go-vcr
Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests (by dnaeon)
| gotest.tools | go-vcr | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 6 | |
| 491 | 1,097 | |
| 1.2% | - | |
| 5.0 | 5.1 | |
| 4 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" 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.
gotest.tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of gotest.tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-20.
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How do you do DB preparation in e2e tests?
Assertion libraries that people seem to love: - testify (my favorite) - go-cmp is a more barebones library - gotest.tools -- I have never used this but some swear by it
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Avoiding Changing Package Interfaces for Tests in Go
I've written a bit about both of these approaches in the gotest.tools wiki.
go-vcr
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-vcr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-09.
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Testing calls to external APIs
Mocking the http client using recorded responses; for example using dnaeon/go-vcr
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How I write offline API tests in Go
For example I see go-vcr (note: not mine), but haven't taken time yet to evaluate it.
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go-vcr v3 has been released
I've finally found some spare time and managed to work on go-vcr, fixed some long standing issues, refactored things here and there and was able to get a new version of the package.
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What are you using for testing your IAC?
Terraform providers are tested this way (separate cloud account w/ create/destroy) paired with VCR to record and replay the HTTP requests.
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Go Package for testing HTTP interactions: github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr
Let me introduce to you github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr.
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best way to mock/unit test http.Client?
dnaeon/go-vcr
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gotest.tools and go-vcr you can also consider the following projects:
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
testfixtures - Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database
ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go
Gauge - Light weight cross-platform test automation
is - Professional lightweight testing mini-framework for Go.
go-cmp - Package for comparing Go values in tests
gofight - Testing API Handler written in Golang.
gotestsum - 'go test' runner with output optimized for humans, JUnit XML for CI integration, and a summary of the test results.
gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library
goc - A Comprehensive Coverage Testing System for The Go Programming Language
httpmock - HTTP mocking for Golang