A copy with slight modifications from https://github.com/shageman/gotestit.git

Presentations:

- [Test-Patterns in Go, 2013.10](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmdrkeene-talks/test-patterns-in-go.html)

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bmatsuo/go-spec:
  Another interpretation of RSpec for Go (golang)
   30 commits, last change: , 9 stars, 1 forks

cloudfoundry/gosteno:

   74 commits, last change: , 8 stars, 5 forks

franela/goblin:
  Minimal and Beautiful Go testing framework
   114 commits, last change: , 118 stars, 7 forks

gophertown/looper:
  Autotesting tool with readline support.
   77 commits, last change: , 91 stars, 4 forks

onsi/ginkgo:
  BDD Testing Framework for Go
   258 commits, last change: , 308 stars, 18 forks

orfjackal/gospec:
  Testing framework for Go. Allows writing self-documenting tests/specifications, and executes them concurrently and safely isolated.
   200 commits, last change: , 105 stars, 18 forks

pranavraja/zen:
  BDD testing framework for Go
   31 commits, last change: , 23 stars, 1 forks

qur/withmock:
  Automatic Go package mock generation tool
   191 commits, last change: , 29 stars, 4 forks

r7kamura/gospel:
  BDD-style testing library for Golang
   37 commits, last change: , 58 stars, 3 forks

remogatto/prettytest:
  A simple testing library for Go
   65 commits, last change: , 97 stars, 8 forks

smartystreets/goconvey:
  Go testing in the browser. Integrates with `go test`. Write behavioral tests in Go.
   682 commits, last change: , 862 stars, 58 forks

stretchr/testify:
  A sacred extension to the standard go testing package
   124 commits, last change: , 266 stars, 23 forks

Go Test It

Summary from the July presentation: There are a couple of interesting testing libraries in go. "testing" comes with the standard library, and gives only very basic support for asserting facts.

Of the other libraries, I recommend looking at "testify/assert", "zen", and "gocheck". testify/assert is used in conjunction with testing to which it adds a lot of useful assertions, but doesn't change the basics of how a test is written. Zen implements the best version of BDD style testing I have seen in go. Essentially, you write one test into which you embed describes, its, and expects. Like testify/assert "gocheck" comes with many matchers out of the box. Gocheck requires creating a suite struct and uses a non-standard way of running the test methods. Its most useful feature to me are setup and teardown methods to allow tests in a suite to share common code. The shared state can lead to problems with concurrent code.

So, summary of the summary: if you are just trying to test stuff and need assertions, go with testify/assert. If you want to see and play with BDD for go, use zen.

Slides from my presentation at Denver Gopher's 7/25/2013

Comparison of go lang testing libraries

Libraries in comparison

• testing: http://golang.org/pkg/testing/ Last Activity: -

• testify: https://github.com/stretchr/testify/ Last Activity: 7 days ago on 7/24/2013

• gocheck: http://labix.org/gocheck Last Activity: 30 days ago on 7/24/2013

• prettytest: https://github.com/remogatto/prettytest Last Activity: 90 days ago on 7/24/2013

• go-spec: https://github.com/bmatsuo/go-spec Last Activity: 700 days ago on 7/24/2013

• gospec: https://github.com/orfjackal/gospec Last Activity: 350 days ago on 7/24/2013

• mao: https://github.com/azer/mao Last Activity: 17 days ago on 7/9/2013

• zen: https://github.com/pranavraja/zen License: Apache Last Activity: 14 days ago on 7/13/2013

Assertions/Matchers

Name	Testing	testify	gocheck	prettytest	go-spec	gospec	mao/zen
License	BSD	MIT	BSD	MIT	BSD	Apache	MIT/Apache
Assertions				uses gocheck
Style	make your own	assert	spec	spec	spec	spec	spec
Equal		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
IsSame						✓
DeepEqual			✓	✓
True		✓				✓
False		✓				✓
Nil		✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Empty		✓
Error		✓	✓	✓	✓
Implements		✓	✓	✓
IsType		✓	✓	✓
StringContains		✓
StringMatches			✓	✓
Collection						✓
Panics		✓	✓	✓	✓
HasLen			✓	✓
Matches			✓	✓
Satisfy					✓	✓
Within						✓

*CollectionContains allows checks for All, Any, Exactly, InOrder, and InPartialOrder

Sources

https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects#Testing