Testify
A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library (by stretchr)
gotest.tools
A collection of packages to augment the go testing package and support common patterns. (by gotestyourself)
Testify | gotest.tools | |
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72 | 2 | |
24,583 | 558 | |
1.1% | 2.7% | |
8.1 | 6.9 | |
4 days ago | 3 months ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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 2025-05-07.
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From Vibe Coder to AI-Assisted Architect
I prefer to use the Go library testify, which significantly simplifies the code:
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Building and Deploying a New API (Part 1)
nil is returned initially, as we're creating user_test.go and using Testify to create tests as we shape the behavior of PostUser. We don't have a DB wired up yet, so the responses will simply be hard-coded structs of what we expect the API to respond with for now to pass the tests.
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Top 5 Go Libraries Every Backend Developer Should Know
Bonus: Testify
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TypeScript vs Go: Choosing Your Backend Language
Testify: Popular framework with assertion functions and mock objects.
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Building a RESTful API with Go Fiber: An Express-Inspired Boilerplate
Testing: unit and integration tests using Testify and formatted test output using gotestsum
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Technical Deep Dive: How We Built the Pizza CLI Using Go and Cobra
We’ve integrated the excellent testify library with its “assert” functionality to allow for smoother test implementation:
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Full Introduction to Golang with Test-Driven Development
This article is too basic and does not introduce anything you'd encounter in a typical Go project. If you want introduction to Go testing I recommend just reading the official docs https://pkg.go.dev/testing and understanding how to write table driven tests - https://go.dev/wiki/TableDrivenTests.
Going beyond what's built in, get familiar with https://github.com/stretchr/testify as that's used a lot.
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Why I don't use a third-party assertion library in Go unit tests
Of course, as soon as people saw this, the third-party assertion helper libraries started appearing. The most popular one seems to be testify (although I've never used it). Personally, I thought that the explicit check would be good enough for me, but it's true that after writing a bunch of tests, the boilerplate does seem unnecessarily verbose.
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What 3rd-party libraries do you use often/all the time?
github.com/stretchr/testify
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Testing calls to Daily's REST API in Go
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.
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Testify and gotest.tools you can also consider the following projects:
ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go
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
is - Professional lightweight testing mini-framework for Go.
GoConvey - Go testing in the browser. Integrates with `go test`. Write behavioral tests in Go.
goblin - Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework