Testify VS go-formatter

Compare Testify vs go-formatter and see what are their differences.

Testify

A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library (by stretchr)
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Testify go-formatter
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21,981 120,346
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8.6 9.2
6 days ago 6 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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Testify

Posts with mentions or reviews of Testify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-01.
  • What 3rd-party libraries do you use often/all the time?
    7 projects | /r/golang | 1 Dec 2023
    github.com/stretchr/testify
  • Testing calls to Daily's REST API in Go
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Sep 2023
    I then verify that there are no issues with writing the body with require.NoError() from the testify toolkit. This will ensure the test fails if something happens to go wrong at this point.
  • Gopher Pythonista #1: Moving From Python To Go
    3 projects | dev.to | 27 Jul 2023
    For testing purposes, Go provides a go test command that automatically discovers tests within your application and supports features such as caching and code coverage. However, if you require more advanced testing capabilities such as suites or mocking, you will need to install a toolkit like testify. Overall, while Go provides a highly effective testing experience, it's worth noting that writing tests in Python using pytest is arguably one of the most enjoyable testing experiences I have encountered across all programming languages.
  • Why elixir over Golang
    10 projects | /r/elixir | 29 May 2023
  • How to start a Go project in 2023
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2023
    Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

    - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

    - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

    - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

    - https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

    - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

    - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

    - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

    - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

    - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

    - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

    FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

    We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

  • Do you wrap testing libraries?
    1 project | /r/golang | 16 May 2023
    Im thinking in wrap or not the library https://github.com/stretchr/testify to do my tests.
  • [Go] How to unit test for exception handling?
    1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 19 Apr 2023
    Are you limited to the std lib, or can you use testify? You can require things like require.Error()
  • Tools besides Go for a newbie
    36 projects | /r/golang | 26 Mar 2023
    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
  • Is gomock still maintained and recommended?
    7 projects | /r/golang | 6 Mar 2023
    To answer OP directly, I am largely quite happy with mockery (and testify) to write expressive tests.
  • Golang, GraphQL y Postgress
    2 projects | /r/devsarg | 26 Jan 2023
    Como herramientas te recomiendo: FastJson https://github.com/valyala/fastjson : Si necesitas leer jsons Testify https://github.com/stretchr/testify : Para mockear y testear

go-formatter

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-formatter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Testify and go-formatter you can also consider the following projects:

ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go

gobeam/Stringy - Convert string to camel case, snake case, kebab case / slugify, custom delimiter, pad string, tease string and many other functionalities with help of by Stringy package.

GoConvey - Go testing in the browser. Integrates with `go test`. Write behavioral tests in Go.

go-shortid - Super short, fully unique, non-sequential and URL friendly Ids

gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library

numa - NUMA is a utility library, which is written in go. It help us to write some NUMA-AWARED code.

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

stateless - Go library for creating finite state machines

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

morse - Morse Code Library in Go

go-cmp - Package for comparing Go values in tests

bexp - Go implementation of Brace Expansion mechanism to generate arbitrary strings.