Trials and tribulations of testing in Go (Go Time #174)

Testing can be hard, how to test, where to test, what is a good test? All questions that can be deceptively difficult to answer. In this episode we talk about the trials and tribulations of testing and why it can be argued to be especially difficult in Go.

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Featuring:

• Jon Sabados – Website, GitHub, X
• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X

Show Notes:

• dig - a reflection based dependency injection toolkit for Go
• is - Mat Ryer’s lightweight testing mini-framework for Go
• testing - from the Standard Library
• Learn Go with Tests

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!