Thanks for the suggestions, but that framework is for mocking a server right? What if what I want to test is a server and endpoints I developed?
On Friday, July 21, 2017 at 1:24:23 AM UTC-7, Simon Ritchie wrote: > > My scaffolding tool generates a web server and some unit and integration > tests. The tests use Peter Gotz' mocking framework pegomock. If you > generate a server with the scaffolder, you can look at the source code and > see how it works. > > https://github.com/goblimey/scaffolder > > By the way, not everybody in the Go community believes in the use of > mocking frameworks. Donovan and Kernighan's The Go Programming Language > advocates a different approach. This is used to test the entire Go > infrastructure, so it's clearly effective. However, I come from the London > Java community and we use mocking frameworks a lot over here. > > I used pegomock because I couldn't get gomock to work. I managed to get > pegomock working and I found that Peter was much more responsive when I > reported a couple of issues with it. > > For system testing, you can use the Firefox Selenium addon, which works at > the HTTP level and doesn't care what language you used to create the > server. It records a web session and produces tests in various formats, > which you can then edit. For example, if you record a test that creates an > object in a database and it produced one with ID 42, and then you record a > test that displays object 42, you can edit the test to replace the ID with > a wildcard. > > Before I wrote my scaffolder, I experimented by hand-crafting a very > simple web server: https://github.com/goblimey/films. > I recorded some Selenium tests for this. They are in > tests/system/selenium. > > Obviously, there is a general point here. There are lots of tools out > there that run penetration, performance and other types of testing on http > servers and none of them care what technology you used to create the server. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
