Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

The Art of Testing

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

- Edsger Dijkstra

Software systems are destined to grow and evolve over time. Open or closed source software projects have one thing in common: their complexity seems to follow an upward curve as the number of engineers working on the code base increases. To this end, having a comprehensive set of tests for the code base is of paramount importance. This chapter performs a deep dive into the different types of testing that can be applied to Go projects.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Identifying the differences between high-level primitives such as stubs, mocks, spies, and fake objects that you can use while ...