Top 23 Go Testing Framework Projects

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1. Testify

   1 71 24,218 8.2 Go

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

   

   Project mention: Building and Deploying a New API (Part 1) | dev.to | 2025-01-07

   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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3. ginkgo

   2 20 8,560 8.5 Go

   A Modern Testing Framework for Go

   

   Project mention: Mastering Golang Debugging in Emacs | dev.to | 2024-11-29

   Debug both standard applications and Ginkgo tests (this is what I'm using at the moment 🤷)

4. GoConvey

   3 3 8,322 4.1 Go

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

   

5. go-cmp

   4 7 4,332 3.6 Go

   Package for comparing Go values in tests

   

6. dockertest

   5 48 4,257 8.2 Go

   Write better integration tests! Dockertest helps you boot up ephermal docker images for your Go tests with minimal work.

   

7. Gauge

   6 6 3,022 9.1 Go

   Light weight cross-platform test automation

   

8. Looking for Maintainer

   7 5 2,574 0.0 Go

   Selenium/Webdriver client for Go (by tebeka)

   

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10. godog

    8 8 2,390 6.6 Go

    Cucumber for golang

    

    Project mention: Quitting early for the win! | dev.to | 2024-12-13

    Quick side note - this is probably the subject of a whole other blog post but my current favourite way of testing CLI tools uses godog to write tests. It can be a little complex but I've found it supremely powerful. Here are some good examples of how I've approached it with layli and wait-for.

11. gomega

    9 6 2,231 8.2 Go

    Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library

    

12. is

    10 7 1,840 2.7 Go

    Professional lightweight testing mini-framework for Go.

    

13. gnomock

    11 5 1,424 5.1 Go

    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 💻

    

14. go-vcr

    12 7 1,287 8.2 Go

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

    

    Project mention: Effortless HTTP Client Testing in Go | dev.to | 2024-07-11

    Now that you see the motivation behind VCR testing, let's dig deeper into how to implement it in Go using dnaeon/go-vcr.

15. testfixtures

    13 4 1,138 7.7 Go

    Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database

    

16. embedded-postgres

    14 7 913 5.9 Go

    Run a real Postgres database locally on Linux, OSX or Windows as part of another Go application or test

    

    Project mention: I curate a daily newsletter with resources about Golang - Daily Golang. Here are the latest 6 issues of the newsletter | dev.to | 2024-08-19

    fergusstrange/embedded-postgres Embedded Postgres allows running a real Postgres database locally as part of another Go application or test, providing a simple way to include Postgres in your development environment.

17. goblin

    15 0 887 0.0 Go

    Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework

    

18. goc

    16 1 843 2.7 Go

    A Comprehensive Coverage Testing System for The Go Programming Language

    

19. GoAws

    17 0 802 7.3 Go

    AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing

    

20. baloo

    18 0 778 0.0 Go

    Expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy in Go

    

21. gocheck

    19 1 697 0.0 Go

    Rich testing for the Go language (by go-check)

    

22. go-mutesting

    20 3 653 0.0 Go

    Mutation testing for Go source code

    

23. gotest.tools

    21 2 541 6.9 Go

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

    

24. go-testdeep

    22 11 441 4.3 Go

    Extremely flexible golang deep comparison, extends the go testing package, tests HTTP APIs and provides tests suite

    

25. gofight

    23 1 440 7.8 Go

    Testing API Handler written in Golang.

    

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