Introducing testing in Go
Go comes packaged with a great deal of wonderful tools for making sure your code is clean, well-formatted, free of race conditions, and so on. From go vet to go fmt, many of the helper applications that you need to install separately in other languages come as a package with Go.
Testing is a critical step for software-development. Unit testing and test-driven development helps find bugs that aren't immediately apparent, especially to the developer. Often we're too close and too familiar with the application to make the types of usability mistakes that can invoke the otherwise undiscovered errors.
Go's testing package allows unit testing of actual functionality as well as making certain that all of the dependencies (network, ...
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