Human-Friendly Test Output With Go

Less headaches. More structure.

Friedrich Politz
Geek Culture
Published in
4 min readMay 27, 2021

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If there is that one attribute I had to pick which makes Go a great language to work with, it would be its notion of self-containment. Go gives you everything you need to get started while maintaining a striking level of simplicity.

However, that simplicity often comes with a degree of plainness that needs some love around its edges to be usable by a human.

Tests are on that side of the coin and if you ever had to look through a test report generated by Go, you will…

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Friedrich Politz
Geek Culture

Engineering Manager and code junkie by day, hobby chef, musician and learning enthusiast by night.