Gain insights into TDD with Go. Learn Go fundamentals, write test cases, explore TDD katas, and build a TODO app to master reliable application development practices.

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Test-driven development (TDD) is a software design technique based on tests that promotes an iterative way of writing software. This course will teach you to use TDD using Go—one of the most popular languages.

In this course, you will first learn about the fundamentals of Go, including packages, standard library, and error handling. Then, you will go through a comprehensive guide on writing test cases using Go, including subtests, table-driven tests, skipping, benchmarking, fuzzing, dependency injection, and mocking in unit tests. Next, you will look at multiple TDD katas and learn about the best practices for making most of the TDD approach. Finally, you will build a TODO application by following the test-driven development approach. This application will be a REST API that exposes actions getting TODOs. 

After completing this course, you will have the skills needed to build reliable applications using the test-driven development approach.

Learning Test-Driven Development with Go

# What a clean test looks like
After introducing what tests are and how to apply them to the test-driven development approach, let’s learn how to write clean tests.
## The layout of a test
The **arrange, act, and assert (AAA) paradigm** is one of the most popular paradigms for structuring a good test. 

- **Arrange**: Here, we set up everything to let the test run. That means we need to build, initialize, and prepare the object, which will be our system under test (SUT).
- **Act**: Here, we run the actual function of our SUT that we’re about to test.
- **Assert**: Here, we evaluate if what we get is what we expect. In other words, we assert the behavior of our SUT.  
  
We can see an example of this in the following code snippet:

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Introduction

Go: Fundamentals

Assessment: Basics of Go

Tests & TDD

Go & Tests

Assessment: Tests in Go

TDD Katas

A Simple TODO Application

Conclusion

Clean Tests

What a clean test looks like

The layout of a test