Learning Test-Driven Development with Go

Beginner

39 Lessons

10h

Certificate of Completion

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This course includes

1 Project

2 Assessments

113 Playgrounds

This course includes

1 Project

2 Assessments

113 Playgrounds

Course Overview

Test-driven development (TDD) is a software design technique based on tests that promotes an iterative way of writing software. This course will teach you to use TDD using Go—one of the most popular languages. In this course, you will first learn about the fundamentals of Go, including packages, standard library, and error handling. Then, you will go through a comprehensive guide on writing test cases using Go, including subtests, table-driven tests, skipping, benchmarking, fuzzing, dependency injection, a...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Interfaces In Go

Object Oriented Programming

Rest Api

Unit Testing

Error Handling In Goroutines

What You'll Learn

Familiarity with core components of Go, including structs, interfaces, functions, and methods

Hands-on experience writing unit tests using Go

An understanding of TDD and its application in software development

The ability to write software using TDD with Go

What You'll Learn

Familiarity with core components of Go, including structs, interfaces, functions, and methods

Course Content

Introduction

Introduction to the Course

Go Features

Go: Fundamentals

Hello, World Go Basics Formatting with Package "fmt"Standard Library I/O Interactions with "io" and "os" Packages Error Handling

Assessment: Basics of Go

Assessment

Tests & TDD

What Are Tests?Test-Driven Development (aka. TDD)Clean Tests Code Smells Magic Numbers

Go & Tests

Write Your First Test Tests in Go Skipping and Testify Package Benchmarking and Fuzzing Roman Numerals: First Test Roman Numerals: Add Test Cases Roman Numerals: Refactor Tests Composition with Structs Interfaces in Go Dependency Injection Mocking in Unit Tests Database Mocking Building Web APIs in Go Test Web API

Assessment: Tests in Go

Assessment

TDD Katas

FizzBuzz Kata FizzBuzz: Not-Divisible Requirement FizzBuzz: "Fizz" Requirement FizzBuzz: "Buzz" Requirement FizzBuzz: "FizzBuzz" Requirement PassValidator Kata PassValidator: AtLeastTwoDigits Requirement PassValidator: MultipleErrors Requirement PassValidator: AtLeastACapitalLetter Requirement PassValidator: NoSpecialCharacter Requirement General TDD Guidelines

A Simple TODO Application

Project

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Course Author

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