The Best Mock in the World: Examining Tools for Generating Mocks in Go
summary
A comparison of Go interface mock generators—Mockery, Gomock, and Minimock—using practical examples to show each tool's advantages, disadvantages, and ease of use. The talk also covers best practices for writing unit tests with mocks in Go.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:45Mock generation
- 9:55Expectation typing
- 13:28Call limits
- 17:21Call order checks
- 21:36Working with aliases
- 25:53Async tests
- 31:17Fixing bad tests
- 33:28Tool comparison
- 34:30Summary and recommendations
- 35:38Q&A
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