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A Modern Testing Framework for Go (by onsi)

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  • Writing tests for a Kubernetes Operator
    3 projects | dev.to | 7 Oct 2023
    Ginkgo: a testing framework based on the concept of ‌"Behavior Driven Development" (BDD)
  • We moved our Cloud operations to a Kubernetes Operator
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023
    We were also able to leverage Ginkgo's parallel testing runtime to run our integration tests on multiple concurrent processes. This provided multiple benefits: we could run our entire integration test suite in under 10 minutes and also reuse the same suite to load test the operator in a production-like environment. Using these tests, we were able to identify hot spots in the code that needed further optimization and experimented with ways to save API calls to ease the load on our own Kubernetes API server while also staying under various AWS rate limits. It was only after running these tests over and over again that I felt confident enough to deploy the operator to our dev and prod clusters.
  • Recommendations for Learning Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Go?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 9 Apr 2023
    A bit off-topic, but i really like the ginkgo BDD framework
  • Start test names with “should” (2020)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Feb 2023
    You obviously are not familiar with the third circle of golang continuous integration hell that is ginkgo+gomega:

    https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/#adding-specs-to-a-suite

    It’s actually worse than that example suggests. Stuff like Expect(“type safety”).ShouldBe(GreaterThan(13)) throws runtime errors.

    The semantics of parallel test runs weren’t defined anywhere the last time I checked.

    Anyway, you’ll be thinking back fondly to the days of TestShouldReplaceChildrenWhenUpdatingInstance because now you need to write nested function calls like:

    Context(“instances”, func …)

    Describe(“that are being updated”, …)

    Expect(“should replace children”, …)

    And to invoke that from the command line, you need to write a regex against whatever undocumented and unprinted string it internally concatenates together to uniquely describe the test.

    Also, they dump color codes to stdout without checking that they are writing to a terminal, so there will be line noise all over whatever automated test logs you produce, or if you pipe stdout to a file.

  • ginkgo integration with jira/elasticsearch/webex/slack
    2 projects | /r/golang | 17 Jan 2023
    If you are using Ginkgo for your e2e, this library might of help.
  • Testing frameworks, which to use?
    5 projects | /r/golang | 28 Feb 2022
    https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/ offers a simple way to create tables with different scenarios useful to generate different test cases based on a file like a yml without to need to develop useless code. Maybe at start seems to be a little verbose but depends how you design the test case.
  • Testza - A modern test framework with pretty output
    2 projects | /r/golang | 25 Aug 2021
    What are people’s thoughts on testing frameworks? I’ve heard that most devs only use the testing package in the standard library and the testify package for assertions— I assume this is because Go is meant to be lightweight and scalable, and adding external dependencies basically goes against that. But I’ve also seen devs use packages like ginkgo to make tests more structured and readable. What do you guys think?
  • What are your favorite packages to use?
    55 projects | /r/golang | 15 Aug 2021
    Ginkgo Behavioural test framework
  • Air – Live reload when developing with Go
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2021
    If you write your tests with Ginkgo [0] its CLI can do this for you. It also has nice facilities to quickly disable a test or portion of a test by pretending an X to the test function name, or to focus a test (only run that test) by prepending an F. It’s pretty nice.

    [0]: https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/

  • Half a million lines of Go at The Khan Academy
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2021
    The BDD testing framework Ginko [1] has some "weird" / unidiomatic patterns, yet it is very popular

    https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo

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onsi/ginkgo is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of ginkgo is Go.

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