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Test-Driven Development in Go

You're reading from   Test-Driven Development in Go A practical guide to writing idiomatic and efficient Go tests through real-world examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803247878
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Big Picture
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Grips with Test-Driven Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Unit Testing Essentials 4. Chapter 3: Mocking and Assertion Frameworks 5. Chapter 4: Building Efficient Test Suites 6. Part 2: Integration and End-to-End Testing with TDD
7. Chapter 5: Performing Integration Testing 8. Chapter 6: End-to-End Testing the BookSwap Web Application 9. Chapter 7: Refactoring in Go 10. Chapter 8: Testing Microservice Architectures 11. Part 3: Advanced Testing Techniques
12. Chapter 9: Challenges of Testing Concurrent Code 13. Chapter 10: Testing Edge Cases 14. Chapter 11: Working with Generics 15. Assessments 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 1, Getting to Grips with Test-Driven Development

  1. The testing pyramid specifies how automated test suites should be structured. At the bottom of the pyramid are unit tests, which test a single isolated component. Next up in the middle of the pyramid are integration tests, which test that multiple components are able to work together as specified. Finally, at the top of the test pyramid are end-to-end tests that test the behavior of the entire application.
  2. Functional tests cover the correctness of a system, while non-functional tests cover the usability and performance of a system. Both types of tests are required to ensure that the system satisfies the customers’ needs.
  3. The red, green, and refactor TDD approach refers to the three phases of the process. The red phase involves writing a new failing test for the functionality we intend to implement. The green phase involves writing enough implementation code to make all tests pass. Finally, the refactor phase...
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