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Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

You're reading from   Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang Move beyond basic programming to design and build reliable software with clean code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838554491
Length 640 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Achilleas Anagnostopoulos Achilleas Anagnostopoulos
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Software Engineering and the Software Development Life Cycle
2. A Bird's-Eye View of Software Engineering FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Best Practices for Maintainable and Testable Go Code
4. Best Practices for Writing Clean and Maintainable Go Code 5. Dependency Management 6. The Art of Testing 7. Section 3: Designing and Building a Multi-Tier System from Scratch
8. The Links 'R'; Us Project 9. Building a Persistence Layer 10. Data-Processing Pipelines 11. Graph-Based Data Processing 12. Communicating with the Outside World 13. Building, Packaging, and Deploying Software 14. Section 4: Scaling Out to Handle a Growing Number of Users
15. Splitting Monoliths into Microservices 16. Building Distributed Graph-Processing Systems 17. Metrics Collection and Visualization 18. Epilogue
19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Tips and tricks for writing tests

In this section, I will be going through some interesting ideas that can help super-charge your daily test workflow. What's more, we will also be exploring some neat tricks that you can use to isolate tests, mock calls to system binaries, and control time within your tests.

Using environment variables to set up or skip tests

In a project of any size, you are eventually bound to come across a series of tests that depend on external resources that are created or configured in an ad hoc fashion.

A typical example of such a use case would be a test suite that talks to a database. As the engineers working locally on the code base, we would probably spin up a local database instance with a...

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