Unit Testing in Golang | hatchpad

Unit Testing in Golang | hatchpad

Chloé Powell, Senior Software Engineer at Compass, shares
how their unit testing strategy helps them achieve their goal of “quality
first.” By leveraging interfaces, mocking dependencies, and separating layers of logic,
they’re able to build unit tests in Go that target each layer of their
applications and control all external variables involved.

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[yamilbracho]

There is a mistake in the slide of test tables. Where it is "if actual != expected" it should be "if actual != test.expected". Excellent!!!

[chriskeele]

How strict are you all on the order of the expected and actual values in your assertions?