Introduction to Testing in Go (Golang)

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: About me

Lecture 3: Asking for help

Lecture 4: Mistakes: we all make them.

Chapter 2: Setting up our Development Environment

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Installing Go

Lecture 3: Installing an IDE

Lecture 4: Installing Docker

Chapter 3: Simple Testing

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Creating a simple command line application

Lecture 3: Writing a our first test for the isPrime() function

Lecture 4: Improving our test with table tests

Lecture 5: Checking test coverage

Lecture 6: Completing our table tests

Lecture 7: Improving our program to allow for user entered information

Lecture 8: Writing a test for the prompt() function

Lecture 9: Writing a test for the intro() function

Lecture 10: Testing user input – writing a test for the checkNumbers() function

Lecture 11: Updating readUserInput to make it testable, and then testing it

Chapter 4: An Aside: Running individual tests & Test Suites

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Running a single test

Lecture 3: Running groups of tests (test suites)

Chapter 5: Testing Web Applications

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Creating a simple web app

Lecture 3: Setting up a route and handler for the home page

Lecture 4: Testing our application routes

Lecture 5: Testing Handlers: the Home handler

Lecture 6: Setting up some simple middleware

Lecture 7: Trying out our new addIPToContext middleware

Lecture 8: Testing our middleware

Lecture 9: Testing ipFromContext

Lecture 10: Creating a login form

Lecture 11: Setting up a route and stub handler for the login form

Chapter 6: Testing Validation

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Setting up validation logic

Lecture 3: Testing validation logic

Lecture 4: Completing the tests for our validation logic

Lecture 5: Trying out validation with our login form

Chapter 7: Testing Sessions

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Setting up a test enviroment with testing.M

Lecture 3: Simplifying our templates using a layout

Lecture 4: Installing a sessions package

Lecture 5: Adding session to App config, and creating a SessionManager

Lecture 6: Trying out our sessions

Lecture 7: Updating our tests

Lecture 8: Improving our test for the Home handler

Lecture 9: Testing the render function with a bad template

Chapter 8: Testing POST handlers

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Installing postgres with Docker

Lecture 3: Setting up a database connection

Lecture 4: Adding the data package for models and db package for database access

Lecture 5: Making sure our web app can connect to our database

Lecture 6: Closing our database pool gracefully, and resetting template path in tests

Lecture 7: Creating a stub profile page

Lecture 8: Adding messages to our template data and template files

Lecture 9: Adding true authentication to the Login handler

Lecture 10: Testing the Login handler

Lecture 11: Adding Auth middleware

Lecture 12: Testing Auth middleware

Lecture 13: Updating routes & end-to-end tests

Lecture 14: Problems with our Login handler test

Chapter 9: The Repository Pattern

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Defining an interface type for our repository

Lecture 3: Moving our database functions into a repository

Lecture 4: Updating application config to use the database repository

Lecture 5: Creating a testdb repository

Lecture 6: Updating setup_test.go to use the test repository

Lecture 7: Updating our tests to use the testdb repository

Chapter 10: Testing the database with Integration tests

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Getting started with testing our database

Lecture 3: Getting our tests to spin up a docker image with Postgres

Lecture 4: Populating our test database with empty tables

Lecture 5: Testing InsertUser

Lecture 6: Testing AllUsers

Lecture 7: Testing GetUser and GetUserByEmail

Lecture 8: Testing UpdateUser

Lecture 9: Testing DeleteUser

Lecture 10: Testing ResetUserPassword

Lecture 11: Testing InsertUserImage

Lecture 12: Using build tags to separate our integration tests

Chapter 11: Testing File Uploads

Lecture 1: What we'll cover in this section

Lecture 2: Adding a form to the Profile page

Lecture 3: Adding the UserImage type to the User type

Lecture 4: Updating the profile.page.gohtml file to look for a profile image

Lecture 5: Writing a stub handler and a function to process profile image uploads

Lecture 6: Implementing the UploadProfilePic handler

Lecture 7: Trying things out

Lecture 8: Testing image uploads

Lecture 9: Testing our upload handler, with an alternative approach