Test

📘 Resources

• Testing
• Test Driven Development (TDD) in Golang

📕 Articles

• Exploring the landscape of Go testing frameworks
• Testing standard package guide
• Unit Tests - Practical Go Lessons
• Microservices test architecture. Can you sleep well without end-to-end tests?
• 4 practical principles of high-quality database integration tests in Go
• Writing Tests for Your Database Code in Go
• Understanding Unit and Integration Testing in Golang.
• How to write stronger unit tests with a custom go-mock matcher
• Mock DB for testing HTTP API in Go and achieve 100% coverage
• Write Go unit tests for db CRUD with random data
• https://bozd4g.medium.com/integration-testing-with-golang-test-containers-2889c71ea4d0
• Snapshot testing in Golang
• Integration Testing with Golang (Test Containers)
• Go Integration Tests using Testcontainers
• Integration tests, Docker, and how it all Go(es) together
• Unit Test SQL in Golang, Without Mocking, Using TestContainers (Go, Postgres, Docker, TestContainers)
• Mocking Database in Go
• https://medium.com/@suuum/testing-in-golang-part-1-unit-tests-93badb9fb14d
• Testing in Golang(Part 2) — Database Integration Tests
• Separate Your Go Tests with Build Tags
• Go (Golang): Testing tools & tips to step up your game
• Writing Pact Contract Tests with GoLang
• Testing Kubernetes Go applications
• Building Go Test Suites using Testify
• Improving Your Go Tests and Mocks With Testify
• Top Go Modules: Writing Unit Tests with Testify
• A deep dive into unit testing in Go
• Testing errors in Go
• Comparing Go error values
• Test-driven development with Go
• Test names should be sentences
• Test scripts in Go
• Boosting your Kafka integration tests using Redpanda with Go
• Mastering Concurrent Programming in Golang: Understanding and Handling Race Conditions
• Data Race Detector
• Run tests with -race flag in GoLand
• Advanced Testing in Go
• Integration tests with Go and testcontainers
• Introduction to Go sub tests
• Testing in Go: Subtests
• Getting Started with BDD in Go Using Ginkgo

📺 Videos

• Writing Microservice Integration Tests in Go (Finally) - GopherCon SG 2019
• Testing with golang and testify - tutorial part 1
• Testing with golang and testify - testing suites - tutorial part 2
• Testing with golang and testify - mocking - tutorial part 3
• How to generate mocks using golangs templating engine
• Unit testing in golang - a beginners + advanced-ish tutorial
• Golang / Go Crash Course 04 | Unit testing our code by Mocking with Testify
• Golang / Go Crash Course 06 | Testing our REST API by using http test and SQLite 3

Libraries

• stretchr/testify ⭐ - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
• testcontainers/testcontainers-go - Testcontainers is a Golang library that providing a friendly API to run Docker container.
• go-bdd/gobdd - BDD framework
• shogo82148/actions-goveralls - Coveralls GitHub Action with Go integration powered by mattn/goveralls
• smartystreets/goconvey ⭐ - Go testing in the browser. Integrates with go test. Write behavioral tests in Go.
• onsi/ginkgo ⭐ - A Modern Testing Framework for Go
• orlangure/gnomock - est your code without writing mocks with ephemeral Docker containers
• gavv/httpexpect - End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.
• h2non/baloo - Expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy in Go
• appleboy/gofight - Testing API Handler written in Golang.
• buger/goreplay - GoReplay is an open-source tool for capturing and replaying live HTTP traffic into a test environment in order to continuously test your system with real data.
• cucumber/godog - Cucumber for golang
• gruntwork-io/terratest - Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
• cweill/gotests - Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code.
• dnaeon/go-vcr - Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests
• brianvoe/gofakeit - Random fake data generator written in go
• nhatthm/grpcmock - gRPC Test Utilities for Golang
• fdaines/arch-go - Architecture checks for Go projects
• VerifyTests/Verify.Go - Verify.Go is a snapshot tool for Go language that simplifies the assertion of complex data models and documents
• six-ddc/plow - A high-performance HTTP benchmarking tool with real-time web UI and terminal displaying
• myzhan/boomer - A better load generator for locust, written in golang.
• smallnest/1m-go-tcp-server - benchmarks for implementation of servers which support 1 million connections
• bradleyjkemp/cupaloy - Simple Go snapshot testing
• gkampitakis/go-snaps - Jest-like snapshot testing in Golang 📸
• efficientgo/e2e - Robust framework for running complex workload scenarios in isolation, using Go; for integration, e2e tests, benchmarks and more!
• ory/dockertest - Write better integration tests! Dockertest helps you boot up ephermal docker images for your Go tests with minimal work.
• allaboutapps/integresql - IntegreSQL manages isolated PostgreSQL databases for your integration tests.
• rubenv/pgtest - PostgreSQL test helper for Go
• DATA-DOG/go-sqlmock - Sql mock driver for golang to test database interactions
• golang/mock - GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language
• vektra/mockery - A mock code autogenerator for Golang
• h2non/gock - HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in
• go-testfixtures/testfixtures - Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database
• onsi/gomega - Ginkgo’s Preferred Matcher Library
• dlespiau/kube-test-harness - Write Kubernetes integration tests in go
• tokopedia/gripmock - gRPC Mock Server
• flyingmutant/rapid - Rapid is a Go library for property-based testing that supports state machine (“stateful” or “model-based”) testing and fully automatic test case minimization (“shrinking”)
• leanovate/gopter - GOlang Property TestER
• khaiql/dbcleaner - Clean database for testing, inspired by database_cleaner for Ruby
• hexops/autogold - Automatically update your Go tests
• ovh/venom - Manage and run your integration tests with efficiency - Venom run executors (script, HTTP Request, web, imap, etc… ) and assertions
• benweissmann/memongo - Easily run an in-memory MongoDB server for your Go unit tests
• steinfletcher/apitest - A simple and extensible behavioural testing library for Go. You can use api test to simplify REST API, HTTP handler and e2e tests.
• alicebob/miniredis/ - Pure Go Redis server for Go unittests
• icrowley/fake - Fake data generator for Go (Golang)
• jaswdr/faker - Ultimate fake data generator for Go with zero dependencies
• MarvinJWendt/testza - Full-featured test framework for Go! Assertions, fuzzing, input testing, output capturing, and much more!
• uber-go/mock - GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.
• jarcoal/httpmock - HTTP mocking for Golang
• go-faker/faker - Go (Golang) Fake Data Generator for Struct, previously

🚀 Samples

• victorsteven/Unit-And-Integration-Testing - A simple approach to understanding Unit and Integration testing in Golang
• bozd4g/fb.testcontainers - A sample Integration Testing with Docker Containers implementation written with Golang.
• ayurkin/balance
• ThreeDotsLabs/wild-workouts-go-ddd-example
• remast/go-for-testcontainers
• rafael-piovesan/go-rocket-ride
• suuum/golang-integration-tests-example
• suuum/golang-unit-testing-example
• num30/api-integration-test - This is an example of and integration test for Golang Rest API service
• pact-foundation/pact-workshop-go - Golang Pact workshop
• testingallthethings/033-go-rest - Demonstrating End to End, Integration & Unit test to create a simple REST API
• daopmdean/todoapp-backend - Rest API for todoapp written in Golang, using clean architecture, CI/CD (including unit test and integration test.
• thomaslanghorst/testify-tutorial
• gmhafiz/go8