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Testing Go Code

Let’s learn how to test Go code.

We'll cover the following...

Writing tests for intRE.go
Let’s try our code

The subject of this lesson is the testing of Go code by writing test functions. Software testing is a very large subject and cannot be covered in a single lesson of a chapter in a course. So, this lesson tries to present as much practical information as possible.

Go allows us to write tests for our Go code to detect bugs. However, software testing can only show the presence of one or more bugs, not the absence of bugs. This means that we can never be 100% sure that our code has no bugs!

Strictly speaking, this lesson is about automated testing, which involves writing extra code to verify whether the real code—that is, the production code—works as ...

Course Introduction

Introduction to Go

Basic Go Data Types

Composite Data Types

Reflection and Interfaces

Go Packages and Functions

Telling a UNIX System What to Do

Go Concurrency

Building Web Services

Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

Working with REST APIs

Code Testing and Profiling

Working with gRPC

Go Generics

Conclusion

Appendix A—Go Garbage Collector

Testing Go Code