Thank-you for the feedback. I will also checkout the packages that you mentioned. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Robert On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 08:15:19 UTC-4, rog wrote: > > I've been using packages that use this technique for a long time now > (first gopkg.in/check.v1 <https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/check.v1>, and > latterly github.com/frankban/quicktest > <https://godoc.org/github.com/frankban/quicktest>), and I can confirm > that it works great. In general, tests can assume that they're being run in > the package source directory because they're entitled to read file > resources from there (for example from the testdata directory), so running > a test binary on a separate machine isn't useful in general unless you pull > across the other files too. > > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 14:52, Robert Johnstone <r.w.j...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I recently found the package github.com/matryer/is >> <https://godoc.org/github.com/matryer/is>, and really liked its trick of >> loading the source code (found using runtime.Callers) so that the the >> messages for test failures could be created automatically. Enough that I >> experimented with my own package. However, this does mean that the >> messages can not be created if the test binary is run on a separate >> machine, or in a sandbox. I can't think of any cases where this would be >> an issue, but (as an example), it does break on the playground >> <https://play.golang.org/p/FNb9SuCXgaw>. >> >> Does anyone have experience with this technique in production? >> >> -- >> 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 golan...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d7a801c1-17aa-4f4b-9e46-abcc36fd49ff%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d7a801c1-17aa-4f4b-9e46-abcc36fd49ff%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/c3dea48a-55f8-41b7-82ba-b01013a435fe%40googlegroups.com.
