Clean Tests
Explore how to write clean tests in Go by following the arrange-act-assert structure and applying the FIRST principles. Understand how to create tests that are fast, independent, repeatable, self-validating, and timely to improve your test-driven development skills.
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We'll cover the following...
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