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From: Lewis Dale <lewis.dale@triptease.com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 08:57:53 +0100
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+title: "Learning Go: Day Five"
+date: 2024-05-05T08:00:00.0Z
+tags:
+    - learning
+    - go
+excerpt: "For Day Five, I'm going to look at how to write tests"
+---
+
+Testing is important! I'm an advocate for Test-Driven Development in my work[^1], so it's quite important that I work out how to test what I'm writing before I go any further. For today, I'm using [this really helpful blog post](https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2022/11/22/comprehensive-guide-to-testing-in-go/) from Jetbrains as a guide.
+
+## Creating a test
+
+First of all, I need a separate file for my tests. The convention is apparently to store tests alongside the code they're testing, so I'll create `maths_test.go`:
+
+```go
+// maths_test.go
+package maths
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestMultiply(t *testing.T) {
+    result := Multiply(2, 5)
+    if result != 10 {
+        t.Errorf("Got %d when expecting %d", result, 10)
+    }
+}
+```
+
+This wrapping function seems to be used similarly to a `describe` block if you're writing tests using `jest` in Javascript. That is, it's a descriptor for a collection of tests, not necessarily a single test.
+
+Tests are ran using the `go test` command, however when I ran mine I got this output:
+
+```bash
+go test
+?       lewisdale.dev/learn-go  [no test files]
+```
+
+It turns out I had to specify the package because I'm running it from the module root:
+
+```bash
+go test lewisdale.dev/learn-go/maths
+ok      lewisdale.dev/learn-go/maths    0.138s
+```
+
+And then searching tells me I can also use `./...` as the package name to run all tests recursively:
+
+```bash
+go test ./...
+ok      lewisdale.dev/learn-go/maths    0.138s
+```
+
+## Triangulating tests
+
+These are call table-driven tests, and they amount to iterating over an array (or slice!) of inputs and running a test for each input:
+
+```go
+func TestMultiply(t *testing.T) {
+    var inputs = []struct {
+        a, b, expected int
+    }{
+        {2, 5, 10},
+        {10, 100, 1000},
+        {12, 15, 180},
+    }
+
+    for _, input := range inputs {
+        t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%d x %d = %d", input.a, input.b, input.expected), func (t *testing.T) {
+            if result := Multiply(input.a, input.b); result != input.expected {
+                t.Errorf("Got %d when expecting %d", result, input.expected)
+            }
+        })
+    }
+}
+```
+
+The command line doesn't give much information by default, but by adding the verbose (`-v`) flag to the test command we get much better output:
+
+```bash
+go test ./... -v
+?       lewisdale.dev/learn-go  [no test files]
+=== RUN   TestMultiply
+=== RUN   TestMultiply/2_x_5_=_10
+=== RUN   TestMultiply/10_x_100_=_1000
+=== RUN   TestMultiply/12_x_15_=_180
+--- PASS: TestMultiply (0.00s)
+    --- PASS: TestMultiply/2_x_5_=_10 (0.00s)
+    --- PASS: TestMultiply/10_x_100_=_1000 (0.00s)
+    --- PASS: TestMultiply/12_x_15_=_180 (0.00s)
+PASS
+ok      lewisdale.dev/learn-go/maths    0.109s
+```
+
+## Fuzzing tests
+
+This is a pretty cool feature. Go has a built-in test fuzzer that produces random values and can be used to find edge cases:
+
+```go
+func FuzzMultiply(f *testing.F) {
+    f.Add(2, 5)
+    f.Fuzz(func (t *testing.T, a, b int) {
+        Multiply(a, b)
+    })
+}
+```
+
+And then run using `cd maths && go test -fuzz .`:
+
+```bash
+go test -fuzz .
+fuzz: elapsed: 0s, gathering baseline coverage: 0/1 completed
+fuzz: elapsed: 0s, gathering baseline coverage: 1/1 completed, now fuzzing with 10 workers
+fuzz: elapsed: 3s, execs: 1358234 (452687/sec), new interesting: 0 (total: 1)
+fuzz: elapsed: 6s, execs: 2742335 (461339/sec), new interesting: 0 (total: 1)
+fuzz: elapsed: 9s, execs: 4126851 (461439/sec), new interesting: 0 (total: 1)
+fuzz: elapsed: 12s, execs: 5525464 (466204/sec), new interesting: 0 (total: 1)
+^Cfuzz: elapsed: 12s, execs: 5737472 (471088/sec), new interesting: 0 (total: 1)
+PASS
+ok      lewisdale.dev/learn-go/maths    12.594s
+```
+
+This ran my function almost 6 million times in 12 seconds, which is wild. This is a _really_ useful tool for picking up those hard-to-find bugs, but because it will run until there's an error it almost certainly won't be something to use in CI.
+
+That's all I'm going to cover on testing today, there's quite a lot more there that I'll start to pick through as I start working on an actual project[^2]. One of the more useful things in the Jetbrains post includes the [Testify package](https://github.com/stretchr/testify), which looks like a testing framework that wraps `testing` for less-verbose tests.
+
+[^1]: At least, when I remember to do it, otherwise it's DDT.
+[^2]: Which I will decide on in the next couple of days
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