Testing Applications

Testing is critical to creating robust applications, and yet testing is very often avoided, or overlooked by developers. I believe part of the reasoning is that companies prioritize application feature speed to market over quality and robust application development. Another reason is that proper automated testing is considered difficult, whereas manual testing of an application is seen as the easier solution.

Within this chapter, we will tackle the problems and solutions of testing applications within Go and more specifically, how we can test our Echo web applications. We start by covering the five primary categories of application testing and then progress into how each type of testing can be accomplished for our example ...

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