httpmock vs testcerts

httpmock

HTTP mocking for Golang (by jarcoal)

Testing Mock

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testcerts

Dynamically generate self-signed certificates and certificate authorities for Go tests (by madflojo)

Testing Golang certificate-generation Go

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httpmock		testcerts
	Project
5	Mentions	2
1,868	Stars	44
-	Growth	-
4.7	Activity	5.9
7 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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httpmock

Posts with mentions or reviews of httpmock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-10.

Golang rest-api testing
1 project | /r/golang | 27 Dec 2022
[Rant] Sa Isi Bage Microserviciile in C*R
2 projects | /r/programare | 10 Sep 2022
Integration tests with Go and testcontainers
6 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2022

We will use httpmock for this purpose. Inside function setupSuite(), where we created useCase and provided nil as a billingClient now we will pass mocked http client:
Best practices around mocking interfaces from external packages
1 project | /r/golang | 6 May 2021

Alternatively, you could use an http mock library like https://github.com/jarcoal/httpmock, and override the urls the RealClient calls with a mock response in your tests.
best way to mock/unit test http.Client?
4 projects | /r/golang | 15 Mar 2021

To mock an API: https://github.com/jarcoal/httpmock to use when your code calls external APIs so you don't want your tests call the real API. No need to create an interface as you do.

testcerts

Posts with mentions or reviews of testcerts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Show HN: Dynamically generate self-signed certs for Go unit tests
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
testcerts v1.1.0 released | Added self-signed CA and Custom Domains
1 project | /r/golang | 7 Apr 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing httpmock and testcerts you can also consider the following projects:

gock - HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in Go ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽

ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go

hoverfly - Lightweight service virtualization/ API simulation / API mocking tool for developers and testers

go-sqlmock - Sql mock driver for golang to test database interactions

mockit - Library that make mocking of Go functions/methods easy

gomock - GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.

gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library

minimock - Powerful mock generation tool for Go programming language

goc - A Comprehensive Coverage Testing System for The Go Programming Language

httpexpect - End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.

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