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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 10, Testing Edge Cases

  1. A robust system is one that continues to function correctly, even when supplied with unexpected or exceptional inputs. When errors or unexpected inputs occur, the system is able to handle them gracefully without panics and return meaningful errors. Robust code is readable, maintainable, and easy to test.
  2. Fuzz testing is a software testing technique that involves generating a large amount of random data, which is then passed to the fuzz target in an attempt to verify its behavior against a wide range of parameters. Fuzz testing makes it easier to uncover bugs by reducing the number of tests we need to write manually to cover edge cases of input variables.
  3. A fuzzed test begins with the Fuzz prefix, takes in a single *testing.F parameter, and returns no values. Just like other tests, they must be defined inside _test.go files. They are run using the go test command.
  4. Property-based testing is a technique that involves the generation and verification...
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