Discussion on: How I write my unit tests in Go quickly

[Jaime Martinez]

Great read! You can also use testify's require instead of asserting. For example,

From

if assert.NotNil(t, err, "unexpected function error") {
    // here we assert the expected value
    // but only if the error is nil!
    assert.Equal(t, got, want, "unexpected function output)
}

To

got, err:= doSomething()
require.NoError(t, err) // or require.Nil(t, err)  or require.NotNil(t, got)
assert.Equal(t, expected, got.SomeValue)

In this case your test will automatically fail before going into the assertion, and not causing a nil pointer exception!

I also like table tests over BDD but that's just my personal preference.

[Ilya Kaznacheev]

Nice point, thanks!