Writing Tests in Go (a Beginners Guide)

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:00:00 +0000

There a many benefits to testing your code in general, which we won’t go into detail on (but if you’re interested, take a look here) all we will say is the quote below.

“Imperfect tests, run frequently, are much better than perfect tests that are never written at all”. - Fowler

First Test

We’ve created the most basic progam, to add two numbers together, below in main.go which we’re going to write a test for. Tests in Go are found in separate files to the code and are within *_test.go - where * is the filename. So our test would be main_test.go - but if your go file was address.go, you’d create a address_test.go and store them here.

Testing on Gopher Coding

Writing Tests in Go (a Beginners Guide)

First Test