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Recent Posts
How to Write and Execute Parallel Tests in Go - A Comprehensive Guide
Discover the secrets to effective parallel testing in Go. This guide provides everything you need to write and execute tests faster, enhancing your development workflow.
Leveraging LocalStack for S3 Client Integration Testing: A Comprehensive Guide
In the realm of cloud computing, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) has established itself as a cornerstone service for storing and retrieving any amount of data at any time. However, integrating and testing applications that rely on S3 can introduce complexity, especially when ensuring that your application behaves as expected under various scenarios. This is where LocalStack comes into play. LocalStack provides a fully functional local cloud stack, allowing developers to test cloud applications offline, including services like S3, without incurring extra costs or relying on cloud connectivity.
Go Fuzz Testing Explained: Enhance Your Code's Security & Reliability
How to Effectively Unit Test Goroutines in Go: Tips & Tricks
Unit testing in Go, especially when it involves goroutines, presents unique challenges due to their concurrent nature. Goroutines are lightweight threads managed by the Go runtime, and they are used to perform tasks concurrently.
Mastering SQLMock for Effective Database Testing
Testing is a crucial aspect of software development, ensuring that applications perform as expected. For applications that interact with databases, mocking the database interactions is essential for isolated and efficient testing. SQLMock is a powerful tool in the Go ecosystem, designed to facilitate testing of database interactions without relying on a real database.
Writing End-to-End Tests in Go Microservice Architecture
Testing is a crucial aspect of software development, ensuring the reliability and robustness of applications. In microservice architectures, where applications are decomposed into smaller, independent services, testing becomes even more significant.
Fuzz Testing in Go: An Introduction with Examples
Fuzz testing, often simply called "fuzzing", is an automated software testing method that provides random and unexpected input data to a program to find potential issues. These issues can include crashes, unintended behaviors, or vulnerabilities. In this post, we'll explore fuzz testing in the context of the Go programming language, diving into how it's done, and providing real-world examples.
Testing GORM with SQLMock
GORM is one of the most popular ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) libraries in Go, providing a simplified and consistent way to interact with databases. As with all application code, it's imperative to ensure that your database operations are thoroughly tested. However, hitting a real database during unit tests isn't ideal. This is where SQLMock comes in. SQLMock provides a way to mock out your SQL database so you can test your GORM code without needing a live database.
Using Docker to Run Unit and Integration Tests with Go
Docker has revolutionized the way we develop, build, and ship applications. It offers consistent, repeatable, and isolated environments, which makes it an ideal choice for running tests. In this blog post, we'll explore how to use Docker to run unit and integration tests for a Go application.