使用ginkgo / gomega测试Go应用程序时测试文件的正确结构

Question

My Go app(restfull api service) is growing and i decided to use testing. My choise is Ginkgo/Gomega.

Learning site (http://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/#getting-started-writing-your-first-test) i found that to start test you need

1. goto the package
2. ginkgo bootstrap

This will create file [your_package]_suite_test in root of package folder. It's Ok.

But then if i want to test some feature or file or package i need again goto the folder and ginkgo generate [test_name] which will create stub test file here.

So, in one moment we will have many messy: files of our app and testing files together in one folder. For example, server.go, server_test.go, auth.go, auth_test.go, and so on.

I want to searate app files and test files. For example i want to create a folder tests in root package and place all tests here. So, when i need to test app i can run go test ./tests

Is it correct pattern to use Ginkgo/Gomega with separate tests folder?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In Go you can run all tests of a given project with a single command regardless of where your test files are located. In a terminal, change to your project base directory and run:

$ go test ./...

In my Go projects I usually have a separate Bash script that will do this for me. You can can place it, for instance, in bin/run_tests.sh with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash -e
time go test ./... | grep -v '^?'

Make this file executable and then run it:

$ ./bin/run_tests.sh

I don't have a separate test folder. Judging by most Go projects I see around what developers are going for is having the test file in the same directory where the file being tested is located.