When to mock and what to mock in a Web API?

• gomock

  40 9,010 2.5 Go

  Discontinued GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language. (by golang)

  

Normally I like to generate everything with Mockgen and test it using table driven test.

• dockertest

  48 3,960 4.5 Go

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

  

If your project is relatively simple and you can get away with recreating your scenarios against a real mock database and run other related services locally. It would be good to setup docker containers for your test scripts and write e2e tests. I believe e2e tests are harder but more useful in understanding/reasoning how users are impacted.

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• vcr

  20 5,751 6.4 Ruby

  Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.

  

If you had bit more complex workflows or less time - you could start using a VCR library to mock out API interactions and then continue with your dockerised DBs.

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