5 Advanced #go Testing Techniques
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By Engineer Alan BraithwaiteThis post originally appeared on the Segment blog. Segment, Hacker Noon’s weekly sponsor, is currently offering a 90 day free trial — email friends@segment and mention Hacker Noon to redeem.Go has a robust built-in testing library. If you write Go, you already know this. In this post we will discuss a handful of strategies to level up your Go testing. We have learned from experience on our large Go codebase that these strategies work to save time and effort maintaining the code.Use test suitesIf you take away just one thing from this post, it should be: use test suites. For those unfamiliar with the pattern, suite testing is the process of developing a test against a common interface which can be used against multiple implementations of that interface. Below, you (...)
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