Go Testing

External

• https://go.dev/doc/code#Testing
• https://pkg.go.dev/testing

Internal

• Testing
• Go Engineering
• go test command

Overview

Go comes with a lightweight test framework that includes the go test command and the testing package. The tests live in *_test.go files, located in the package directory.

Packages

• gotest.tools
• github.com/stretchr/testify

Integration Tests

Go Integration Tests

System Tests

Go System Tests

Benchmarks

Process this: https://pkg.go.dev/testing#hdr-Benchmarks.

Fuzzing

Process this: https://pkg.go.dev/testing#hdr-Fuzzing.

Skipping

Process this: https://pkg.go.dev/testing#hdr-Skipping.

Subtests and Sub-benchmarks

Process this: https://pkg.go.dev/testing#hdr-Subtests_and_Sub_benchmarks.

Main

Process this: https://pkg.go.dev/testing#hdr-Main.

Mocks

Mock support: github.com/golang/mock/mockgen

TO DO

• Integrate see external test packages.
• Testing idiom "Introducing Go" page 96.
• Investigate gotest.tools module.
• Running go test immediately after cloning should succeed without any configuration or any running database. If a database is required, those are integration tests.
• https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/go/advanced-testing-in-go