Unit Testing Made Easy in Golang

After writing the code, testing is an essential part of the software development process.

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Previously I covered the Fundamentals of Golang. After writing the code, testing is an essential part of the software development process. Testing refers to the process of checking whether all parts of code function well for different types of inputs.

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Personally, I feel testing is a tedious process and it daunts me. In this article, I will try to ease you into testing in Golang.

You can find the source code of the fundamentals of Golang and testing: https://github.com/Nidhi-Gahlawat/Golang

Writing Unit Test Cases

Unit testing in Go is an essential practice to ensure the correctness and reliability of your code. Go provides a built-in testing package called testing that enables you to write and execute unit tests.

I will be using the following directory format. Here, myutil has three files (mathutil.go, myutil.go, stringutil.go) with different functionalities. main.go uses the myutil package’s functions to perform operations. all_test.go would be used for testing.