is vs verify

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Professional lightweight testing mini-framework for Go. (by matryer)

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Extensible, type-safe, fluent assertion Go library. (by fluentassert)

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is		verify
	Project
7	Mentions	5
1,711	Stars	39
-	Growth	-
2.7	Activity	7.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	28 days ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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is

Posts with mentions or reviews of is. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-13.

The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know
6 projects | /r/golang | 13 Dec 2022
is there a way to write test in a sane way?
3 projects | /r/golang | 22 Mar 2022

I use https://github.com/matryer/is which is a simplified version of testify.
Testing frameworks, which to use?
5 projects | /r/golang | 28 Feb 2022

testify off steroids, all you ever need: is
What are the REST API reference projects that can be used as a guide in 2021?
10 projects | /r/golang | 24 Nov 2021

However your point is valid. Check matryer/is for unit test writing. DATA-DOG/go-sqlmock to test database interactions.
Beginner here, I'm wondering how ok it is to omit err return values as I am trying to approach things from test-driven perspective
2 projects | /r/golang | 25 Oct 2021

Even better, use https://github.com/matryer/is.
"is" testing framework?
2 projects | /r/golang | 17 Oct 2021

Probably they talking about https://github.com/matryer/is ?
fluentassert - a prototype of yet another assertion library
7 projects | /r/golang | 28 Mar 2021

verify

Posts with mentions or reviews of verify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-31.

fluentassert/verify 1.0.0 is released
1 project | /r/golang | 5 Apr 2023

After more than 4 months of RC phase, I published a stable release of https://github.com/fluentassert/verify
fluentassert - asking for feedback
1 project | /r/golang | 29 Mar 2023

I am the author of https://github.com/fluentassert/verify and I am looking for feedback :)
Any major projects using generics?
13 projects | /r/golang | 31 Oct 2022

https://github.com/fluentassert/verify another assertion library
fluentassert - an extensible assertion library
1 project | /r/golang | 22 Oct 2022
fluentassert - a prototype of yet another assertion library
7 projects | /r/golang | 28 Mar 2021

Today morning I woke up with an idea to create an assertion library with a more user-friendly and extensible API (than other popular libraries). The main idea is to create a more user-friendly API than other libraries. Here is the prototype: https://github.com/pellared/fluentassert

What are some alternatives?

When comparing is and verify you can also consider the following projects:

Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library

assertions - Fluent assertion-style functions used by goconvey and gunit. Can also be used in any test or application.

GoAws - AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing

btree - BTree provides a simple, ordered, in-memory data structure for Go programs.

gnomock - Test your code without writing mocks with ephemeral Docker containers 📦 Setup popular services with just a couple lines of code ⏱️ No bash, no yaml, only code 💻

gocrest - GoCrest - Hamcrest-like matchers for Go

gotest.tools - A collection of packages to augment the go testing package and support common patterns.

testcase - testcase is an opinionated testing framework to support test driven design.

goblin - Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework

gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library

godog - Cucumber for golang

dsunit - Datastore Testibility