Ginkgo & Gomega Talk 2020

About the author

I'm Alexander Egurnov, Senior Software Engineer at PubNative. I've been coding in Go since March 2016.

About this repo

This is an introduction and a live demo of my favorite features of Ginkgo testing framework and it's accompanying assertion library Gomega.

Talking points

• Gomega
  • Standalone
  • Expect and Ω notations
  • Annotations
  • Matchers
    • Error checking
    • Panic
    • Equivalence
    • Numbers
    • Other types
    • Collections
  • Async assertions
  • Combining matchers
  • Transformations
  • Custom matchers
• Ginkgo
  • Connecting to testing package
  • Connecting Gomega
  • Context/Describe/When, It/Specify, By
  • Focus, Skip, Pending
  • Setup and teardown
  • Async functions
  • Measurements
  • CLI
    • ginkgo bootstrap and ginkgo generate
    • go test interoperability
    • GinkgoWriter and -v option
    • ginkgo -p
    • ginkgo -r
    • -skipMeasurements
    • -flakeAttempts=ATTEMPTS
    • -untilItFails
    • ginkgo watch -notify -r -skipMeasurements
    • ginkgo blur/unfocus
• General advice
  • Keep tests readable