GoMock: Replacing Hand-Coded Test Doubles in Golang
Welcome back to The Engineering Coach! After building our own Stubs, Spies, and Mocks from scratch, we're ready for the real-world efficiency gain. In this episode, we're refactoring the code from our previous series to introduce GoMock, the powerful mocking framework for Golang.
You'll see exactly how a framework like GoMock streamlines your TDD workflow. We'll replace lines of boilerplate code with concise, framework-generated calls, making your tests faster to write, easier to read, and more expressive. This video is the essential step for anyone who wants to write professional, production-ready tests in Golang.
The code for this episode can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/the-engineering-co...
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If you missed the foundational videos where we coded our own test doubles, check out the full playlist to see how the underlying principles work:
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