Go Testing Testing using setUp and tearDown function

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Example

You can set a setUp and tearDown function.

  • A setUp function prepares your environment to tests.
  • A tearDown function does a rollback.

This is a good option when you can't modify your database and you need to create an object that simulate an object brought of database or need to init a configuration in each test.

A stupid example would be:

// Standard numbers map
var numbers map[string]int = map[string]int{"zero": 0, "three": 3}

// TestMain will exec each test, one by one
func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
    // exec setUp function
    setUp("one", 1)
    // exec test and this returns an exit code to pass to os
    retCode := m.Run()
    // exec tearDown function
    tearDown("one")
    // If exit code is distinct of zero,
    // the test will be failed (red)
    os.Exit(retCode)
}

// setUp function, add a number to numbers slice
func setUp(key string, value int) {
    numbers[key] = value
}

// tearDown function, delete a number to numbers slice
func tearDown(key string) {
    delete(numbers, key)
}

// First test
func TestOnePlusOne(t *testing.T) {
    numbers["one"] = numbers["one"] + 1

    if numbers["one"] != 2 {
        t.Error("1 plus 1 = 2, not %v", value)
    }
}

// Second test
func TestOnePlusTwo(t *testing.T) {
    numbers["one"] = numbers["one"] + 2

    if numbers["one"] != 3 {
        t.Error("1 plus 2 = 3, not %v", value)
    }
}

Other example would be to prepare database to test and to do rollback

 // ID of Person will be saved in database
personID := 12345
// Name of Person will be saved in database
personName := "Toni"

func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
    // You create an Person and you save in database
    setUp(&Person{
            ID:   personID,
            Name: personName,
            Age:  19,
        })
    retCode := m.Run()
    // When you have executed the test, the Person is deleted from database
    tearDown(personID)
    os.Exit(retCode)
}

func setUp(P *Person) {
    // ...
    db.add(P)
    // ...
}

func tearDown(id int) {
    // ...
    db.delete(id)
    // ...
}

func getPerson(t *testing.T) {
    P := Get(personID)
    
    if P.Name != personName {
        t.Error("P.Name is %s and it must be Toni", P.Name)
    }
}


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