Level Up Your Web Apps With Go

Chapter 9Automated Testing

For a long time in the web development world, automated testing was unlikely to be part of a developers’ toolkit. Nowadays, a test suite is an integral part of most successful projects, libraries, and frameworks. An automated test suite is a series of tests that can be run to ensure that the business logic of your code is behaving as it should. There are a variety of test types: from checking the end-to-end processes of your code, to simply testing that a single function or method does as it’s supposed to. In this chapter, we’ll look at the tools that Go provides out of the box for writing and running a test suite.

Writing tests at the start of a project is a great way to explore the requirements of a set piece of work, ...