GoLang Unit Testing and Mock Testing Tutorial

In this video we are going to learn what a unit test and what mocking and stubs are. We learn how to create go files for testing, using the testing library, and set up basic unit tests plus using a slice to run a multitude of tests.

We also use the httptest package to set up a mock server to mimic getting JSON data from the web. So that we learn how to do mock testing in golang. There are a lot of different ways to do mock testing, in this tutorial we set up a simple mock test using a stub server to return JSON data for testing.

More information on the loop back interface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback#Virtual_loopback_interface

More information on the net/http/httptest package: https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/httptest

All code found in this video will be at: 💻 https://github.com/NerdCademyDev/golang

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