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Unit testing with Ginkgo and Gomega

Ginkgo (https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo) is a behavior-driven development (BDD) testing framework. It still uses the testing package under the covers, but allows you to write tests using a much nicer syntax. It also pairs well with Gomega (https://github.com/onsi/gomega), which is an excellent assertions library. Here is what you get with Ginkgo and Gomega:

• Write BDD-style tests
• Arbitrary nested blocks (Describe, Context, When)
• Good setup/teardown support (BeforeEach, AfterEach, BeforeSuite, AfterSuite)
• Focus on one test only or match by regex
• Skip tests by regex
• Parallelism
• Integration with coverage and benchmarking

Let's see how Delinkcious uses Ginkgo and Gomega for its unit tests.