Testy Go: A tool for easy testing!

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Table of Contents

• How to Use
• Commands
  • List Commands
  • Test Commands
  • Other Commands
• Demo
  • Commands used in Demo

How to Use

In order to start the tool, you can run it from source or install it as follows:

# Expects Go to installed on the system.
$ go get github.com/last-ent/testy-go

In order to test a project/directory/package, start testy-go in one of two ways:

# You can start the tool after navigating to the expected folder
$ cd <path-to-top-directory>
$ testy-go

# You can also start the tool by providing `-dir` flag which is where you want the tool to test.
$ testy-go -dir=<path-to-top-directory>

Commands

Broadly speaking, three types of commands are available:

List Commands

These commands are used to list files & packages:

• list: List all packages and source files that can be tested.
• list-dirs: List all packages that can be tested.
• list-files: List all source files that can be tested.

Test Commands

These commands are useful to test files & packages and also provide great levels of granularity

• test: Run all non-skippable tests under dir.
• test-all: Run all tests (including skippable) under dir.
• test-dir: Run all non-skippable tests under package (selected by index number) including nested sub-packages.
• test-dir-all: Run all tests (including skippable) under package (selected by index number) including nested sub-packages.
• test-only-dir: Run all tests immediately under package (selected by index number)
• test-only-dir-all: Run all tests (including skippable) immediately under package (selected by index number)
• test-file: Run all non-skippable tests in the file selected. (Selected by index number)
• test-file-all: Run all tests (including skippable) in the file selected. (Selected by index number)

NOTE: The difference between test-*-all and test-* is that, test-*-all will run unskippable tests. The convention in Go is to skip certain tests if -short flag is provided as a commandline argument.

Other Commands

These commands are provide other arbitrary functionality q, quit, exit: Quit or exit the application.

Demo

Commands used in Demo:

$ go run ./testy-go -dir=./test_folder # running from source
WELCOME TO TESTY GO! A TOOL FOR EASY TESTING.
CWD: <path>/github.com/last-ent/testy-go/test_folder

> list
# Listing all files & packages

> test
# Running all non-skippable tests

> list-files
# List all files

> test-file 2
# Output of tests mapped to index 2 when run with `-short` flag

> test-file-all 2
# Output of tests mapped to index 2 when run without `-short` flag