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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

Implementing tests with Godog

With Godog installed and our first feature outlined, let us turn our attention to the implementation of this test.

The main steps we will be taking for implementing our outlined feature are as follows:

  1. Creating feature and test files.
  2. Implementing the test steps for the functionality of our BookSwap application.
  3. Running the application as well as the test.

As we previously mentioned, we will use Godog to implement BDD-style E2E tests, so we require the application to be up and running before we run our tests. However, this is not a Godog requirement, so we can write tests at any level with this easy-to-use library.

Creating test files

As previously mentioned, Godog relies on code generation to make developers’ lives easier. The process consists of copying code from the terminal and creating files ourselves. Let us look at the steps involved.

Step 1 – creating a feature file

Feature files are stored...

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