testfixtures VS wstest

Compare testfixtures vs wstest and see what are their differences.

testfixtures

Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database (by go-testfixtures)

wstest

go websocket client for unit testing of a websocket handler (by posener)
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testfixtures wstest
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1,046 102
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6.3 0.0
9 days ago over 3 years ago
Go Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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testfixtures

Posts with mentions or reviews of testfixtures. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-27.
  • How to mock database calls
    4 projects | /r/golang | 27 Aug 2022
    I'm the author of https://github.com/go-testfixtures/testfixtures, a library written to make it easier to write tests with a real database and test data. You might want to use it together with docker-compose, for example.
  • Integration tests with Go and testcontainers
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2022
    To solve the problem we will use testfixtures. Create a folders fixtures и fixtures/storage and put a file users.yaml inside:
  • Mocking database or use a test database
    5 projects | /r/golang | 18 Apr 2022
    A lot of good suggestions here, I would also take a look at go-testfixtures which allows you to create some simple yaml-based fixture data to use with unit testing. It's quick and easy, but yes can get unwieldy the more you add.
  • Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
    264 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2021
    I built an alternative to Make written in Go that is simpler to use and cross-platform: https://taskfile.dev/

    Also, a library to write tests with databases for Go: https://github.com/go-testfixtures/testfixtures

wstest

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing testfixtures and wstest you can also consider the following projects:

go-vcr - Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests

frisby - API testing framework inspired by frisby-js

Hamcrest - Hamcrest matchers for the Go programming language

go-carpet - Tool for show test coverage in terminal for Go source files

ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go

endly - End to end functional test and automation framework

GoSpec - Testing framework for Go. Allows writing self-documenting tests/specifications, and executes them concurrently and safely isolated. [UNMAINTAINED]

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

assert - :exclamation:Basic Assertion Library used along side native go testing, with building blocks for custom assertions

gofight - Testing API Handler written in Golang.

dbcleaner - Clean database for testing, inspired by database_cleaner for Ruby