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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803247878

Length 342 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

HTTP

Concepts

Test Driven Development

Author (1):

Adelina Simion

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

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Chapter 7, Refactoring in Go

Code redesign involves changing the functionality of an existing service, while code refactoring involves changing the internal structure of an existing service, without changing its existing functionality. Code redesign changes the what, while code refactoring changes the how. If done correctly, code refactoring will not be visible outside the refactored code scope.
The developer starts by identifying the change they wish to make. Then, they modify their implementation or test code. Once this is done and the code compiles, they then run their test suite. If the suite is passing, the code refactor has been successful. However, if the suite is not passing, the developer revisits their code change, adjusting it together with the test code until the test suite is passing. No change is released until the test suite successfully verifies the change.
Technical debt is the term used to refer to code that has not been written to the technical team...

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Authors (1)

Adelina Simion

Adelina Simion

Adelina Simion is a technology evangelist at Form3. She is a polyglot engineer and developer relations professional, with a decade of technical experience at multiple start-ups in London. She started her career as a Java backend engineer, converted later to Go, and then transitioned to a full-time developer relations role. She has published multiple online courses about Go on the LinkedIn Learning platform, helping thousands of developers upskill with Go. She has a passion for public speaking, having presented on cloud architectures at major European conferences. Adelina holds an M.Sc. in mathematical modeling and computing.

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