Truth. I would even go farther and say that mocks are a code smell - and lead to very brittle tests.
> On Oct 5, 2020, at 8:14 AM, 'Bryan C. Mills' via golang-nuts > <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > As for mocking dependencies: in my experience, the best strategy is often > not to. > > It is a good idea to avoid depending on services or resources external to the > test, such as other production services. However, in my experience you'll get > much better test fidelity — you'll find more real bugs, and spend less time > fixing erroneous test assumptions — if you have the test use its own hermetic > instance of the real dependency. > >> On Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 12:26:19 PM UTC-4 krish...@gmail.com wrote: >> We are working on a full scale production app with go backend. >> >> For unit tests, we need to mock the dependent interfaces either by creating >> our own mock implementation of the interface or by using third party >> packages like testify/mocks. >> >> If we use testify, there will be a tendency for the developers to use assert >> statements which is against the best practices in go unit tests. (We use >> t.Fail instead of asserts) >> >> If we create manual mocks, we will end up creating two implementations for >> each interface, one for the program and another for the unit testing. Also >> we cannot test by mocking with different outputs from the dependencies. >> example if the dependency return an error. >> >> Please suggest which the right approach here. > > -- > 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/2b1affd7-1599-4943-8419-d9718f17780fn%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/7DCAF932-870D-432B-95DC-AD1F21EB31B6%40ix.netcom.com.
