On Thursday 15 February 2024 at 10:31:40 am UTC+11 Jeremy French wrote:
I really think the testability issue is the biggest one. Generally, testing the main package is....cumbersome at least. So it's reasonable to say, "I'm not going to test the main package, but I will keep it so simple that it is impossible for a bug to exist in there." Then everything else in your application can be easily and thoroughly tested with the built-in testing tools Yeah I've seen this before as well when there is a lot crammed into `func main()`. AFAICT anything that's in main *function* is only testable by building the binary and running it. If code is outside of the main function but still in the main package, it seems its testable like other functions? I suspect though if one is putting tests in package main_test, then I guess you can't import the main package to test it :( I generally keep my tests in the same package as the code they are testing, so hasn't been a problem *yet*. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/ab3d71ca-d6ad-4ca6-a772-1724375bb680n%40googlegroups.com.
