Go: Unknown Parts of the Test Package

Illustration created for “A Journey With Go”, made from the original Go Gopher, created by Renee French.

go test command is probably the command people use the most in Go. However, there are some interesting details or usage you might not know about. Let’s start with the testing itself.

Idiomatic way to skip the cache

In Go, if you run your tests twice in a row, you can see that is actually running only once if they all pass at the first attempt. Indeed…