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<h2><a href="./">Go by Example</a>: Testing</h2>
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<p>Unit testing is an important part of writing
principled Go programs. The <code>testing</code> package
provides the tools we need to write unit tests
and the <code>go test</code> command runs tests.</p>
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<p>For the sake of demonstration, this code is in package
<code>main</code>, but it could be any package. Testing code
typically lives in the same package as the code it tests.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">package</span> <span class="nx">main</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="p">(</span>
<span class="s">&quot;fmt&quot;</span>
<span class="s">&quot;testing&quot;</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<p>We&rsquo;ll be testing this simple implementation of an
integer minimum. Typically, the code we&rsquo;re testing
would be in a source file named something like
<code>intutils.go</code>, and the test file for it would then
be named <code>intutils_test.go</code>.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">IntMin</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">a</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">b</span> <span class="kt">int</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="kt">int</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="nx">a</span> <span class="p">&lt;</span> <span class="nx">b</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="nx">a</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="nx">b</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<p>A test is created by writing a function with a name
beginning with <code>Test</code>.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">TestIntMinBasic</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">t</span> <span class="o">*</span><span class="nx">testing</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">T</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="nx">ans</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="nx">IntMin</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="nx">ans</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">2</span> <span class="p">{</span>
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<p><code>t.Error*</code> will report test failures but continue
executing the test. <code>t.Fail*</code> will report test
failures and stop the test immediately.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="nx">t</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Errorf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;IntMin(2, -2) = %d; want -2&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">ans</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<p>Writing tests can be repetitive, so it&rsquo;s idiomatic to
use a <em>table-driven style</em>, where test inputs and
expected outputs are listed in a table and a single loop
walks over them and performs the test logic.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">TestIntMinTableDriven</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">t</span> <span class="o">*</span><span class="nx">testing</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">T</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="kd">var</span> <span class="nx">tests</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span><span class="kd">struct</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="nx">a</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">b</span> <span class="kt">int</span>
<span class="nx">want</span> <span class="kt">int</span>
<span class="p">}{</span>
<span class="p">{</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="p">{</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="p">{</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="p">{</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="p">{</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<p>t.Run enables running &ldquo;subtests&rdquo;, one for each
table entry. These are shown separately
when executing <code>go test -v</code>.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="nx">_</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">tt</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="k">range</span> <span class="nx">tests</span> <span class="p">{</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="nx">testname</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Sprintf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;%d,%d&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">tt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">a</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">tt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">b</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nx">t</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Run</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">testname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="kd">func</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">t</span> <span class="o">*</span><span class="nx">testing</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">T</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="nx">ans</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="nx">IntMin</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">tt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">a</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">tt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">b</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="nx">ans</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="nx">tt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">want</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="nx">t</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Errorf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;got %d, want %d&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">ans</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">tt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">want</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">})</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<p>Run all tests in the current project in verbose mode.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">$</span> go <span class="nb">test</span> -v
<span class="go">== RUN TestIntMinBasic</span>
<span class="go">--- PASS: TestIntMinBasic (0.00s)</span>
<span class="go">=== RUN TestIntMinTableDriven</span>
<span class="go">=== RUN TestIntMinTableDriven/0,1</span>
<span class="go">=== RUN TestIntMinTableDriven/1,0</span>
<span class="go">=== RUN TestIntMinTableDriven/2,-2</span>
<span class="go">=== RUN TestIntMinTableDriven/0,-1</span>
<span class="go">=== RUN TestIntMinTableDriven/-1,0</span>
<span class="go">--- PASS: TestIntMinTableDriven (0.00s)</span>
<span class="go"> --- PASS: TestIntMinTableDriven/0,1 (0.00s)</span>
<span class="go"> --- PASS: TestIntMinTableDriven/1,0 (0.00s)</span>
<span class="go"> --- PASS: TestIntMinTableDriven/2,-2 (0.00s)</span>
<span class="go"> --- PASS: TestIntMinTableDriven/0,-1 (0.00s)</span>
<span class="go"> --- PASS: TestIntMinTableDriven/-1,0 (0.00s)</span>
<span class="go">PASS</span>
<span class="go">ok examples/testing 0.023s</span>
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